I was accused of 'pontificating' from my armchair (about Nicaragua) the other day, by one who had 'actually been there'. And so he had - armed only with the thin key of anecdotal detail he was determined to unlock the supra-empirical truth.
Anyway, i was reminded of Gustave Flaubert's 'Dictionary of Received Ideas'. One could add an entry:
'Armchairs. Pontificate from them. Or rather, accuse others of so doing.'
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