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Gerry Quinn · 02 Sep 2014, 22:24 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:24:08 +0100
Subject: (urth) 5HC
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On 02/09/2014 17:53, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> No dia 02/09/2014, ?s 17:13, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu:
>
>> Conclusion: "A Story" is meant to be true, not Marsch's fantasy.
> It may be, but that doesn't follow from the interview.
>


Doesn't it?

"I decided to present the Sandwalker story as a legend or story that 
Marsch had uncovered, rather than as straight reportage"

But if he had presented it in third person, then it would have to be 
taken as fact, no?  So it must be the case that it can be taken as fact 
anyway, if presenting it that way would have made no real difference,

Like in a detective story, if someone says "I watched TV all night the 
night of the murder" that could be a lie.  But if the author notes that 
he might just as well have written "X watched TV all night" -  it would 
have made no difference, but he wanted to present everything as dialogue 
- that would mean X did in fact watch TV all night.

That is my argument, maybe not 100% proof, but it seems reasonably 
logical to me.

- Gerry Quinn

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