This Sociological Life

"At a conference in Manchester, two hundred witnesses and a hotel key-card log," she said. "I disagreed with Desmond about almost everything that mattered intellectually. I didn't want him dead. Dead colleagues don't finish arguments, Dr Voss, they just end them, which is considerably less satisfying." She paused. "For what it's worth - and you can make of this what you like, given everything I've just told you about truth and power - I think he was right, in the end, and I was using a clever theory to avoid admitting it."