Can something make your life go worse for you, even if you do not know about it? Many believe that facts unknown to us can indeed make our lives worse for us. But this raises an important practical problem: if we are ignorant of some important problems in our lives, then what can we do to ameliorate those problems? The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling presents us with a dramatic illustration of the problem. And through the actions of its two protagonists — the nameless journalist, and Jijingi — the story also illustrates some very different ways in which the problem might be solved.