"The way fiction arrives at the truth is different than factuality." Salmon Rushdie just said that to Charley Rose on PBS. Rushdie seems like a very cultivated person of immense intelligence. I enjoy watching Rose interview writers in general. Watching him interview politicians, which he seems to like best, is boring to me.
I liked watching him interview David Letterman and the other night show hosts too. Rose seems to bring out a different side of them than I've noticed before. I sort of believed Letterman's clown act until I saw his interview by Rose. Hell, he's as brilliant and thoughtful as anybody I've seen.
Conan O'Brian is noticeably brilliant, but it's commonly known that he graduated from Harvard, so I expected his interview with Rose, also a Harvard graduate, to be clever, but Letterman was a real surprise.
I have my own way of approaching truth through fiction. At least, I think I do. I'm sure I have my detractors. I know it. I have nemesis' who act as other people or groups agent without their knowing they're being used. How do I know? They tell me through their accusations. People don't have a choice but to accuse me of being them. It doesn't tell me anything about myself, but it sure does tell me about who-they-think-they-are. They're not that way, of course, but they act like they are that way, and know it. They bear shame, and I'm a shameman (shaman). I don't need their permission to use that information anyway I like. I don't need their permission to ignore them either. Nobody wants that.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
