My thoughts exactly, Al, and one can find "truth" walking
down the street--a white toga is optional dress.
The older I get the more I find Reality and Truth to be
sometimes illusive terms. One key variable is point-of-view.
Several times in recent years I have discovered that a person
I shared an experience with twenty or thirty years before
viewed it in an entirely different way. The reality that my
memory held for all those years was completely different from
the memory of the other person and so were the lessons
learned--truth.
One of the joys of reading fiction is experiencing fresh
points of view and sometimes several POVs of the same event
in one story.
By the way, my comparison of detective stories to westerns
was not meant as a putdown of either as I enjoy both. My
point was there is a wider recognition that the fictional
west is usually very different from the historical west. I
love Hammett's Continental Op stories and that has nothing to
do with how closely they are pegged to the reality of private
detective work in the 1920s.
Richard Moore
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie"
<allan@...> wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Surely some of the enjoyment of reading
fiction is that you
experience other people's reality. You can't do that by
walking down the street.
>
> Al
>
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> Richard Moore wrote:
>
> Great points, Kevin. Most private eye
stories--almost
> all of them have the same relationship to reality
that
> most western stories have...
>
> *************
> If I was looking for reality, I wouldn't read
books.
> I could just walk down the street. Reality in
fiction
> is overrated. It's truth I'm looking for.
>
> miker
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