Fridays are library days for HJPP the way Thursdays are mistress days for stranger people. She spent a great amount of time at the F. Sionil Jose Collection, reading for love. Something about the writer impels her to keep going back to that little corner. She does for her love.
She reviewed the WRIFICT handouts on POV that day and read books on setting. Setting and characters seem the hardest elements of fiction, especially in writing. No, everything's hard. While going over reference books on fiction, she found a book entitled Telling Lies for Fun and Profit.
What a weird title, she thought. And then suddenly it made sense: liars are the craftiest people on earth. They tell stories to make people want to believe in the reality of a setting, character, or event. Fiction writers make us believe in all of those, and perhaps fiction writers, too, are liars. In fact, they make the greatest tell-tales of all. They're crafty and sly and witty and innovative.
Fiction is myth-making...or myth-"breaking." By telling seemingly true "untruths" that lead people to believing, fiction also seems to destroy the very idea of what a myth is. Myths are stories that are untrue, which people believe in anyway. Fiction tells stories that people read to believe, even in the knowing that they are make-believes.
The believability of a lie lies in a liar's skill in telling a lie. But unlike fiction, lies aren't mathematical. Fiction seems the most mathematical thing in the world... :/
That afternoon, she watched a music show in support of a cellist friend named JERP. She watches all of his shows. All.
She told him to break two legs...
No comments:
Post a Comment