Maggie's Farm

I'm with you, I prefer it when people can distinguish between fiction and fact. And, to be sure, artistic expression can blur the distinctions between the two. Sometimes the artist enhances the communication of truth, sometimes not. Sometimes it is pleasing, sometimes it is ugly or difficult. The more effective the communication, the better the artist. Or not? If I may, I will wonder aloud if describing truth as 'special' or 'greater' enhances the communication of truth or hinders it? It seems to annoy me without effecting a greater comprehension of a truth. I fear that describing a difficult concept (truth/reality) by calling it better or new or big or improved and on sale, does not advance the purpose of art. But a wine dark sea will evoke feelings and set a tone whether it's in a book of fiction or seen from the bow of your ship. And, in that state of conjured reverie, you can be transported to other worlds and understand, in feelings and thought, many things. It's tempting to call it special truth, but truth is the apex and once you get there, you've arrived.