Fiction vs History?

[Bekah]

At 4:39 PM -0400 10/23/04, Paul Mackin wrote:
>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.


Doesn't mean there ain't no tree or fuzzy duck. 


Bekah