Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:54:00 -0500
From: "the rags of time..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      [WRITERS] EXER: Fleeing the Truth (was: Re: FILL: words from
              kerouac, mailer)

At 06:12 PM 11/7/98 -0700, Gary Chambers wrote:
:)   What I would deny is that the flight from truth is only
:)a liberal's affliction.  There are narrow minded people at
:)all points across the political spectrum.  They just choose
:)different truths to flee from.  In fact, maybe we're all guilty
:)of this at times.  I know I am.
:)

So be it!

And your task, should you choose to roll this sisyphean bauble, is simple.
Pick a truth (any truth, just one that strikes your fantasy).  And then
write a tale, showing us someone fleeing from that truth, scurrying away
from the stark light it casts...

and what happens?


"...I wander'd off by myself
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
        Walt Whitman

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