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Card #c349IR // #c349Synthesis

In other words, what we are given is invention masquerading as memoir, an appropriate choice for a tale in which truth and lies are not without importance.

— In our words · Source: The Eleventh Hour (Salman Rushdie)

[Use when]

Use when a narrative form is itself the lie/truth argument.

[Why it matters]

Form as argument: when the memoir is invented, truth and lies stop being separable by genre.

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