Lying

Alex David Groce · 11 Sep 2000, 15:58 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: (urth) Lying
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:58:29
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Does anyone remember where Wolfe says something to the effect of "I'm
always stunned when a reader asks me why two people in one of my
stories describe an event differently.  Don't they think 'One of them
must be lying?'"

It's in one of the various interviews, I'm pretty sure, and I wonder
if it may be the Larry McCaffrey one that I don't have a copy of.

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