NP Witt List (was something Pynchon-related at some point, maybe)

[Peter Giordano]

I say:

I differ to Andrew on Wittgenstein but hold fast to the following:

1) There are such things as facts, in both the ideal (mathematics) and the
physical world (the relationship between elements) and the historical
2) the explication and/or explanation of facts is always subjective
3) Artists (novelist, poets, historians, etc.) use facts to create
something else - And these creations may bend facts, follow facts exactly,
or completely deny facts; the artistic achievement is that they ulitmately
create works which are on some level true
4) True and factual are not the same thing
5) It is possible to use facts to lie - And lies are not artistic acheivements

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA