"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle "Fiction is a certain packaging of the truth

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle "Fiction is a certain packaging of the truth, or higher truths. Indeed I find that there is more truth in Proust, albeit it is officially fictional, than in the babbling analyses of the New York Times that give us the illusions of understanding what’s going on. Newspapers have officially the right facts, but their interpretations are imaginary – and their choice of facts are arbitrary. They lie with right facts; a novelist says the truth with wrong facts." - N.N. Taleb That this story still has such vigor in the public's imagination tells me that if Hitler doesn't have a flying saucer base down there, somebody does.