[Newspoetry] GREAT MOMENTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY

[emerick at chorus.net]

"Democracy in America" would, of course, now have to be classified under fiction, although it was once deemed to have been non-fictional.  Hence, there is this big debate, in certain literary ellipses (which used to be circles but have become rather squashed (or maybe broccolied) of late), that the status fictional and non-fictional are morphically, as in anthropomorphicalibrationalism, transpositional figures of speech.  To be perfectly clear, it is a fiction that works of fiction can be separated from their alleged counterparts, works of fact.  All fictions are plays of facts, all facts are works of fiction.  It is not possible to tell, from a writing, alone, that it is a work or a play, a matter of fact or of an incorporality (~qv: ghost, spirit, demon, etc) of fiction.  Einstein founded this rule of literary Gedankenism, after Vahinger's classic suppositional thesis, What If?, which has been translated, recently, into the abridging Californiated expression "as if"...  In!
  celebration of these monumental cultural achievements, Calfornians have given new meaning to "Democracy in America" by electing Arnold Schwartzenegger, whose coming 
had been foretold by the Prophet Melchior Brooks, in his oto-biography, Space-Balls, the Great American Past-a-Time.

Thanks for being incens(or)ed,
Your derridean druidean, Dean Don,
or Don Don, as say the Italians...

From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2004/04/05 Mon PM 06:58:38 CDT
To: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
CC: Newspoetry <newspoetry at lists.groogroo.com>
Subject: Re: [Newspoetry] GREAT MOMENTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY

It's common among my students at UIUC in recent years to refer to any long
book by a single author as a novel.  It is perfectly good undergraduate
English to say, "I could have went to the library and got that French
guy's novel, Democracy in America."  --CGE


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Mike Lehman wrote:

> BRITISH NOVELIST IAN McEwan, who was denied entry to the US for 36 hours 
> and underwent three interrogations, was asked by one keen-witted 
> Homeland Security official: "What kind of novels do you write: fiction 
> or nonfiction?"
> 
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