Norm Sheehan Tue 1/22/2008 7:23 AM
> The statements you can find me in the phonebook
> or I am on the Phd List are a good examples-
> because I am not and can never be in these places
These are not good examples of fiction. They are good examples of language being more complex than some people would claim and/or your deliberately misconstruing something to make a point.
> otherwise writing the words "stubbed my toe"
> would hurt ... it is through this fictive context
> that the truth of things often becomes very apparent.
For those of us in what the Bush administration dismisses as the "reality based" world, there is a difference between writing this after having stubbed one's toe and writing this imagining having stubbed one's toe. If the fiction/non-fiction distinction is invalid, stating so is fine. If it is invalid, using the invalid terminology to perform logical gymnastics is sophistry.
I assumed the original "all writing is fiction" statement was meant as hyperbole. If it is meant literally, I'm afraid we're in the Duh!/Huh? range of so much pomo theory. Objectivity is an ideal with no perfect example in the actual world: Duh! Therefor all perspectives are equally fictive: Huh?
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