Verisimilitude
Monday, December 1st, 2003For no explicable reason, the Lansing Bureau runs a story about a new Ann Arbor garage that’s supposed to look like an old Ann Arbor barn. The garage, which is two stories tall and heated, is finished in “Navajo Red” and employs some modern technology to achieve its antique look - or, as the Bureau writer puts it, in a sentence containing about $1.63 worth of words, “In his quest for verisimilitude, McElrath paradoxically used some illusory means. “