Pynchon's "muse" (was ...

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>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> History is something that belongs to the past and the past
> is the time before the present.

This is just semantics. History as text and "the past" are different
propositions altogether.

If two historians disagree about what happened, or about why it happened,
then *at least* one of them is writing something which might also be called
"fiction", isn't she?

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