Within general industrial prosperity, it's possible to say anything about anyone. Which is to say, if a life is largely anodyne, there is a certain freedom of characterization, especially from those a ways off. When life becomes unusual, e.g., extraordinarily difficult in an objective sense, the constraint on others' characterizations is the exception to this general freedom, and not all may be aware (especially those a ways off) that an exception is governing the usual stream of idle calumnies.
