Pynchon Is A Liar

Murthy Yenamandra yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Mon Aug 14 11:13:29 CDT 2000


Daniel Callahan writes:
> > From: "s~Z" <keith at pfmentum.com>
> > "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".  

Welles' version is a lot more palatable, but of course you'll notice
he's not actually agreeing with Wilde.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
"I strive to be brief, but I become obscure." - Horace



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