24-08-2013, 02:24 PM
Jan, I think we agree that there is quite a bit of substance to the cliche, "truth can be stranger than fiction."
One sure-fire method of raising informed doubt regarding a story's verisimilitude is to exaggerate even just one of its components.
Might the suggestion box aspect of the "Soldier N" narrative have been concocted, or at least twisted, to raise the very question that I've posed?
Absolutely.
Are we living in a novel of infinite endings?
My family's official philosopher-in-residence was my uncle. He was an auntologist.
There remain, of course, countless alternative endings to this post.
At least that's one possibility.
One sure-fire method of raising informed doubt regarding a story's verisimilitude is to exaggerate even just one of its components.
Might the suggestion box aspect of the "Soldier N" narrative have been concocted, or at least twisted, to raise the very question that I've posed?
Absolutely.
Are we living in a novel of infinite endings?
My family's official philosopher-in-residence was my uncle. He was an auntologist.
There remain, of course, countless alternative endings to this post.
At least that's one possibility.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene