A Little More Absolute-ness Please

[Spencer Thiel]

At 3:11 PM -0700 9/28/99, you wrote:


>On my way to pick up my son at middle school having forgotten 'First
>Meditations' by Coltrane I tuned into NPR and was nudged out of a most
>ecstatic reverie when I heard a panelist on a program discussing works
>that meld fiction and non-fiction say:
>
>"Whenever you mix non-fiction with anything else, you dilute the
>non-fiction."
>
>He continued, using terms like 'poison' and such, to berate the evil of
>straying from the 'facts.'
>
>I just hate it when people can't see the transforming necessity of
>dilution and poison. Hell, if he wants to stick with the prima in the
>materia let him do so at his peril. Can't he see that real danger is
>lead-poisoning?

FWIW, they were discussing Reagan's upcoming 'biography'.  Hey, when you
are talking about a lying, forgetful, ex-actor, it is by it's very nature a
blend of fiction and non-fiction.


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