| It's easy shuttling between a style of largely absurdist speculation and sudden pockets of very serious assertion. |
| The Schadenfreude is indecent, but the confident historical assertion is still less justified. |
| It was an assertion of Aboriginality more convincing, and proudly joyful, than any activist manifesto or protest could ever be. |
| Finally, the assertion that everything happens by necessity seems to leave the whole of morality in doubt. |
| However, a healthy body of evidence would appear to contradict my assertion. |
| Put another way, it is the content of his affidavit or statement which determines the assertion. |
