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		<title>Useful Fictions, Part III &#8211; Historical Fiction&#8230; Sort Of</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote recently about the 'urban legends' of American History – the colorful stories which tend to root in significant events. Even factually flawed, these myths proffer illumination beyond the events themselves through their framing – or even their distortion – of the mere facts of a happening.

Sometimes history is reshaped to reflect cultural priorities, other times to give a little extra ‘oomph’ to an important moment. Sometimes the distortion is malicious, or self-serving.  Sometimes we just get it wrong.

"Historical Fiction" is a different creature... ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Useful Fictions, Part II &#8211; The Stories We Tell Ourselves</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of you are familiar with the story of the Tortoise and the Hare or some variation thereof.  The stripped down version goes something like this.

A turtle and a rabbit are having a race on some pretense or other. The race begins, and the rabbit leaves the turtle far behind, as you would expect. The turtle just keeps right on moving as best he can, though, and after a time the rabbit gets lazy, or cocky, or both, and takes a lil’ nap – which is irrational in these circumstances but sets up the moral of the story.]]></description>
		
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