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Fictional true stories. Or true fictional stories.

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Rob Archer
Apr 12, 2013
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Here's the grayness at the heart of all storytelling: Every fiction is based on true stories, but every true story is constructed of fictions. And what's true and what's fiction are often interchangeable the way quantum particles are sometimes there and not there at the same time. What kind of crazy bastard does it take to dance across tightropes made o…

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