Right! The act of storey-telling is in many ways an act of lying, constructing a falsehood. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote: > Early on, Gaddis embroils us in the Liar's Paradox - which is to say thatpost-modern fictions typically begin with the phrase: "What you are reading now is false..."