"There Is No Truth He Said"

"[...] there is no truth," he said. Frey tells me the book was created by an alien warlord who had a crazy idea he wanted to test on humans -- if people could really feel the suffering of fictional characters, a single book could change the universe. "What about a matchmaker who trave...

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Published in:Esquire (1979) 2011-11, Vol.156 (4), p.134
Main Author: Richardson, John H
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Frey, James (1969- )
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Summary:"[...] there is no truth," he said. Frey tells me the book was created by an alien warlord who had a crazy idea he wanted to test on humans -- if people could really feel the suffering of fictional characters, a single book could change the universe. "What about a matchmaker who travels back in time and tries to set people up with the right person?" Frey told his staff to write up their ideas, just a couple of paragraphs each. [...] just as you decide that Frey is full of it, some alien from an alternate reality chloroforms you (above) and tries to stealEMPTY [Photograph]: running through this story show what happens to Frey and the author as they cross the fact divide to get at the truth of Frey's radical vision for the future of EMPTY [Photograph]: human culture, a future in which culture is a factory and objective reality itself falls away, in which everyone is an artist creating his own reality.
ISSN:0194-9535