“在谎言中发现真相”
Neil Gaiman好像和Ursula K Le Guin有点观点相同啊~- G3 o( e" b: d. h; @' o
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在“尼尔·盖曼演讲提问部分整理”中，有这样的话：
B4 b: r5 h' y" [“一个女生问：请问盖曼先生，你是否觉得我们的文学作品中需要一些记实性的作品，来告诉我们一些真相，而不只是奇幻？1 G4 \8 z& G9 C9 e! d8 L8 V
盖曼的回答：创作就是谎言里边显真相的一种功夫，所有的创作都是谎言，让我们在这些谎言中发现真相。”2 p- L4 D7 E" h+ a9 H. H7 V+ h
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在《黑暗的左手》的序中，有这样一段：9 i9 e" z9 L2 _% M' t
“A novelist's business is lying.”
6 \/ ~4 R' q2 P/ G“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”* t' A" w9 p3 {+ _1 B2 z3 F
- l1 F- h9 t) R6 n+ ~+ A0 t很有趣啊。作家在撒谎，但通过谎言表现真相！
