Yeah, I actually completely agree. For me, the appreciation of stories is predicated on being able to believe contradictory truths at the same time -- which is definitely a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too sort of a thing.
D's problem is not with multiple differing eyewitness accounts, so much as --- hmm... I'm putting words in his mouth, but... it's more that if there's a story, i.e. canon -- and then there are muddying variations which claim to be "true" perspectives -- say, a slasher's version of a movie or a show, they actually wash back onto the original and make it feel less real. Sort of like an endless game of telephone, where it somehow makes changes to the actual original message itself, rendering it garbled. Much like, a movie version of a book inserts its images into ones memory, even if one didn't like the movie...
I don't know if I'm saying it exactly right, but that seems to be his feeling. (When he wakes up I'll ask him to put it better. *g* )
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Date: 2009-02-14 06:57 am (UTC)D's problem is not with multiple differing eyewitness accounts, so much as --- hmm... I'm putting words in his mouth, but... it's more that if there's a story, i.e. canon -- and then there are muddying variations which claim to be "true" perspectives -- say, a slasher's version of a movie or a show, they actually wash back onto the original and make it feel less real. Sort of like an endless game of telephone, where it somehow makes changes to the actual original message itself, rendering it garbled. Much like, a movie version of a book inserts its images into ones memory, even if one didn't like the movie...
I don't know if I'm saying it exactly right, but that seems to be his feeling. (When he wakes up I'll ask him to put it better. *g* )