Fiction vs History?

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 13:57, Bekah wrote:
> 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.
 
Nature abhors sharp edges.