"Every time some piece of the puzzle begins to come into focus, it fades away in a blur, evaporates in a wisp of thin and dubious haze, or gets bogged down in paperwork without sense or substance. Interrogation follows interrogation, statement follows statement -- and each one brings more tiny contradictions to light which further obfuscate the ungraspable, unseeable reality which the investigators are trying so hard to reconstitute."

Perec, George. 53 Days. Eds., Harry Mathews, Harry and Roubaud, Jacques, trans., Bellos, David (Boston, Verba Mundi, 2000), p. 33.