Thinky words from a Book Review

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Seems like I never actually have time to read my New Yorker magazines ... but I was paging through one last night and came across some words that made me stop and think deep thoughts...

From James Wood's review of John Wray's novel "Lowboy," about a schizophrenic young man riding the subway. I am fascinated all the way around...

"Fiction is at once real and imaginary. Not real at one moment and flickeringly illusory the next, like the fading pulse of a dying man, but both at once, as if a ghost had a pulse. Fiction is one giant pseudo-statement, a fact-checker’s nightmare. Like one of our own lies, it can be completely “wrong” about the world and yet completely revelatory—completely “right”—about the psychology of the person issuing the error."

Check out the rest of the review here.