That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
The World Motivation
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
“Lee Strunk made a funny ghost sound, a kind of moaning, yet very happy, and right then, when Strunk made that high happy moaning sound, when he went Ahhooooo, right then Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open. The teeth were broken. There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The cheekbone was gone. Oh shit, Rat Kiley said, the guy's dead. The guy's dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound - the guy's dead. I mean really.”
“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”