Not exactly snappy

In Custer and Sitting Bull, Kyle Gann puts the phrase, quoted in this very space before, in Custer's mouth: "Judge me not by what is known now, but in the light of what I knew when these events transpired". This is, as Gann puts it in the program notes, "adapted from Custer's defense". Some adaptation! What Custer said: "Here in the same view as before, I claim to be judged not entirely by what is known now but in the light of that information which was afforded me when the events contemplated in the first set of these charges transpired".