Fiction vs History?

[Bekah]

At 5:45 PM -0700 10/22/04, aleach67 at mac.com wrote:
>>Historians themselves -- good ones -- since the mid-nineteenth century have
>>recognised that the line between history and fiction is blurred. It's also a
>>recognition which has been a constant in Pynchon's work from V. to M&D. It's
>>the fallacious assumption that history somehow presents "the truth" which is
>>potentially pernicious, not the recognition that it doesn't.


Just because the line between black and white is blurred by a whole lot of grey does not mean there is no black or white.  Eliminating defined distinctions is regressing to pre-cognition not moving toward metacognition.


Bekah