[Ads-l] P.S. on "Fargone" vs. "Fargoed"

[Robin Hamilton]

Oops!  An Alternative Reality rather than simply a different perspective on the
events.  Let's just call him Larry.

Thinking of which, there's some seriously weird shit goes down in this area in
James Hogg's _Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner_.  Meet my
doppelganger, John Knox.

... and let's not START on the Apocryphal Gospels.

  ;-(

R.

> 
>     On 17 January 2017 at 19:25 Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
>     > On Jan 17, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Robin Hamilton
>     > <robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM> wrote:
>     >
>     > Slightly off-topic, and not making it as verbiage, but Robert Browning
>     > did it
>     > earlier in _The Ring and the Book_. There's also Laurence Durrell's
>     > _Alexandria
>     > Quartet_.
>     >
>     > R.
> 
>     Lawrence, not Laurence (much as I’d like to assimilate him). And as for
> doing it more recently, cf. Lauren Groff’s _Fates and Furies_, although it’s
> more a question of different perspectives and filling in different
> underspecified details than of (as I recall from Rashomon) different facts.
> 
>     —La*u*rence Horn
>     >
>     >>
>     >> On 17 January 2017 at 18:02 "MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
>     >> RDECOM
>     >> AMRDEC (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Google also reveals examples of "Rashomoning".
>     >>
>     >>>
>     >>> Below is an instance of "Rashamoned" (from the movie "Rashomon" which
>     >>> depicts contradictory versions of reality), but it seems to be a
>     >>> rare example.
>     >>>
>     >>> http://www.metafilter.com/146620/Can-time-heal-these-wounds
>     >>>
>     >>> [Begin excerpt]
>     >>> I don't think there's actually an answer there. I mean, think about
>     >>> the
>     >>> difficulties we have with eyewitness testimony in general, then
>     >>> combine that with how much of an, for lack of a better word, "origin
>     >>> myth" this is to both of them. Both of them could have Rashamoned
>     >>> this so long ago that there's no way to ever really discover the
>     >>> objective truth especially past the emotional content.
>     >>> [End excerpt]
>     >>>
>     >>> Garson
>     >>>
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