Pynchon's "muse" (was ...

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
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> >From: MalignD at aol.com
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> > I fear the next stop in this discussion to be the "history is a fiction"
> > argument, which can be fun and all but ...
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> Not what happened exactly, but what has been written as having happened ...
> There is a difference between history and the past, isn't there?
> 
> best

History is something that belongs to the past and the past
is the time before the present.