December 9, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Public Service Announcement
There is a less-than-fine line between fiction and reality. You don't need to draw that line. But you shouldn't refuse to recognise that it exists.
Posted by Jane Galt at December 9, 2004 2:59 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksThe real difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
"Perhaps it was because Dan Brown was American, perhaps it was because his bestseller mixed fact and fiction so successfully that the Da Vinci tourists flocking to France took every word as Gospel truth - their naive gullibility irritating the rational, logical French."
Bien sur.
The "logical, rational" French, then, would certainly not fall for Michael Moore's mockumentary or the spate of books proving that the CIA or the Israelis caused 9/11. Right.
Mr. Speirs, good call.
The thing that really disappoints me is that they went with Tom Hanks. Clearly, this role should have belonged to David Duchovny.
Mindles,
Hope your back is doing better. Glad to have you back with us (in a little more than just a silent role).
I think it's not so much a matter of the French being "rational, logical" but having lost their sense of humor.
By the 1980's I think the French became so bored with themslves that they've been sulking an irritable at many things.
I wonder if some fiction writers like Joyce or Hemingway would have any interest in Paris anymore. I think it's the French, not the tourists, who have difficulty understanding the difference between fact and fiction, a difference wider than implied by the "fine-line" comment made. :)
But the lack of a sense of humor is the greatest plague being suffered by the French in recent times. :)
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