On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:46:44PM -0400, Barsha{at}aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/17/02 3:32:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> pddb{at}demesne.com writes:
> 
> > .  To tell the truth, I have to, as
> > Emily Dickenson said in another connection, tell it slant.  
> 
> I never heard that before, but I love it:  to tell it slant.  

She also says in the same poem, "Success in Circuit lies," which
I have certainly taken to heart.

> That is really, 
> I think, what most good fiction tries to do.

As she originally meant it, yes, I think so too mostly -- she
says that "the Truth must dazzle gradually, or [every man?]
be blind."

-- 

Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet           (pddb{at}demesne.com)
"I will open my heart to a blank page
   and interview the witnesses."  John M. Ford, "Shared World"

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