My head is still reeling from reading the full transcript of the Israel Lobby "debate" posted by ScribeMedia. When so much effort is expended over "facts" with so little resolution, one begins to appreciate the "security" of fiction! Therefore, I shall retreat to an observation that Michael Wood recently made in his recent New York Review article about William Gass: Fictions are not lies, or not necessarily lies, because they don't usually try to deceive. They arrange events and feelings, in the sense of a musical arrangement. They give experience an angle or a story. Sometimes we are not sure they are fictions—we just suspect them of some sort of stylization, catch in them what Brecht in another context calls "the scent of a mythology."
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