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The nature of fictional truth.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)

From: Skeptical Inquirer  |  Date: 3/1/2005  |  Author: Broussard, John A.; Estling, Ralph; Hermann, Robert M.; Skole, Robert; Ward, Ray; Wittman, Jack

In his Forum article of November/ December 2004, Ralph Estling brings up the interesting dichotomy of factual truth vs. fictional truth. He regards Joe Rosenthal's Iwo Jima flag-raising photo and MacArthur's pictured landing at Leyte as examples of the latter. He then proposes that Sergei Eisenstein's baby carriage bouncing down the Odessa Steps and the director's depiction of "grizzled" revolutionaries listening to Lenin's speech at the Finland Station as being essentially the same ...

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