Pynchon Is A Liar

[Daniel Callahan]

> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:54:04 -0700
> From: "s~Z" <keith at pfmentum.com>
> Subject: Pynchon Is A Liar
> 
> "The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of
> beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Orson Welles agreed (albeit without Wilde's
epigrammatic wording), stating that art should be
"unreal but true".  This, of course, drives
ultra-naturalists and verisimiltudinarians nuts. 
Prob. why I enjoy M&D so much.

Daniel.

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- Shakespeare

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