woansdei 7 jannewaris 2004
The Difficult Art of Telling the Truth
The problem with telling the truth is that much of what happens in the world is made possible by lies, and so much of the world is actively opposed to truth. We might respond to this with the great ‘So what!’ of modern culture: maybe the world doesn’t need truth, maybe the world is just fine as it is. When I write, I like to remind myself of exactly why it is I’m writing.
Dave Edwards, How to lose friends and be excluded by influential people:
the difficult art of telling the truth on the interesting MediaLens website
Remember that “the difficult art of telling the truth” is a paraphrase (curiously uncited) of Herman Melville’s “great art of telling the truth,” his description of his own project in writing fiction. Fiction=Truth. But that’s another story.
skreau Colin Dewey, op freed 30 jannewaris 2004 op 9:10