I’m just gonna keep quoting these passages until I’m done

From Oblivion, Confession:

    “I’m not interested in telling the truth here unless the truth makes a better story.

    Sometimes I think of writing all the lies in a special ‘lie’ color so that everyone will know what’s true and what isn’t. But then it gets complicated because what about exaggeration? Is exaggeration a lie? Or what about the things I change to disguise who I’m talking about? That I do all the time. And what about the things I leave out, or the things I’m not sure about?

    I’ve even thought of making each form of deception its own color. Red equals lie, blue equals hyperbole, yellow equals obfuscation, and so on. Only what about the things that combine several forms of deception? Do I mix the colors together?”

And…

    Norman O. Brown said: “Everything is only a metaphor. There is only poetry.”

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