Fiction
Actors, called upon the stage, put on a mask so that we cannot see the blush on their faces. So, as I am about to mount the stage of the world where I have been a spectator so far, I advance masked.
In my youth, when I was shown ingenious discoveries, I used to ask myself whether I could not invent them myself even without reading the author. In this way, I gradually came to notice that I was using determinate rules.
Descartes, Preliminaries and Observations (1619)
Raymon noticed The Uses of Invention. The tagline “The novelist and Nobel laureate VS Naipaul has said that fiction is dead, vanquished by our need for facts. But, argues Jay McInerney, imaginative storytelling has the power to reveal underlying truths in a turbulent world” is chillingly familiar.
