Posted AT 4:01 AM EST on 16/07/08
Familiar tunes, surprising angles
ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSSAt Molson Amphitheatrein Toronto on MondayCounterfactual thinking is what you do when you try to imagine the consequences if some event had turned out differently. What if Napoleon had lost at Marengo, or if the bullets had missed Kennedy, or if Bouchard had won the referendum? Applied to that kind of story, counterfactual thinking is a game played at immeasurable distance from its subject.
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