Volume 53, Number 17 · November 2, 2006
The Far Side of Fiction
By Michael Wood
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass
Knopf, 418 pp., $26.95
The Tunnel: An Audio Book
by William H. Gass, read by William H. Gass
Dalkey Archive, 3 CDs, $19.95
Fictions are everywhere, although we often call them something else: politeness or metaphor or simplification, perhaps. It's a fiction to say you had a lovely evening if the evening was just so-so, and it's certainly a fiction to say you are in the heart of the country when you are only in what is usually called its middle. There is even an element of fiction in most uses of pronouns like 'you' and 'we'—too many different persons are crowded into those common shelters.
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