Fiction vs History?

[Keith McMullen]

 >>>The existence of a world external to ourselves has never been in 
question --
it's the conceptualisation, or interpretation, of it, which is being
addressed. Historians and writers of fiction are both in the business of
representing an interpretation, or interpretations, of "the world".<<<

So are we all. A careful examination of the imagined relationship 
between the human bodymind mechanism and an external world is just a 
more extreme version of the issue of the relationship between history 
and fiction, between reader and text, author and text, etc etc. The 
conceptualization of a world external to ourselves is a dualistic 
conceptualization popular in the West and leads to views of history 
and/or fiction in accord with it. Nondualistic conceptualizations, more 
popular in the East, open other doors for talking about and questioning 
the nature of reality, as well as for discussing history, fiction, 
hermeneutics, etc etc.

Although I am a diehard cardinal fan, hats off to the Red Sox. I am 
awed by 4 straight against the Yankees followed by 4 straight against 
the Cardinals. That is kicking some serious ass.

And Jolly. You are a dumbass of the most silly and easily dismissed 
kind.