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"they are truer than if they had really happened"
What a wonderful way to capture a great truism about art. A misunderstanding of what kind of reality exists in art leads many to some very lame conclusions about what is "realistic". Most of the time "realistic" art in the vulgar sense is actually a cheap artistic trick, a disingenuous product.
Posted by: dende blogger | March 1, 2004 12:30 PM | Reply to this comment
Wonderful indeed. It was the opening quote in a documentry I watched Saturday called Stone Reader it is something of a literary mystery. A fellow named Dow Mossman wrote a book by the same title in 1972 it received good reviews. He was marked as certain star in the literary world, but simply disappeared. The documentry is about the search for him. I recommend it. It will get the juices flowing for both reading and writing.
Posted by: Norm | March 1, 2004 12:59 PM | Reply to this comment