Oregon daily emerald., October 23, 1981, Page 3, Image 3

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The lie invented by the writer reveals the truth, says author
Herbert Gold
Writer’s ‘/ioe»
Creafe a-ha* tylVeexnJ-truth’
7pe expenence
By GINGER BARNES
Of tfx Emerald
Addressing the “art of
successfully combining fiction
and lying." novelist, writer and
traveler Herbert Gold casually
delivered jokes and shared
personal anecdotes with his
audience Thursday afternoon
"The difference between a
lie and the lie that is invented
by a writer," explained Gold.
is that the lie invented by the
writer reveals the truth It is a
fantasy that is somehow com
municated ” This fantasy, the
author said, should create an
"a-ha type of experience in
the reader in such a way that
the author's dream becomes
the reader's experience
There is nothing more bor
ing than someone else’s
dream." said Gold "and there
are only a few artists or writers
that can take dreams and
make them art Otherwise, the
dreams we have are trivial,
wish-fulfillment, fear or phobia
dreams The magic of storytel
ling is making a trivial drean
quadrivial,’ making i
storeable.”
Gold has written numerou
novels including, "Fathers'
"He/She", and "Family". Hi
said his own writing is a mix
ture of personal experienci
and "objective/correlatives,
a T.S Elliott term which mean
to objectively tell a story si
that it becomes a reality for th
reader
To tell a reader that th
sergeant was a mean, bruta
sadistic man isn't believable t
the reader, said Gold "Yo
have to find the objective
/correlative of how you sa\
that man.”
The reader can get a pictur
of that sergeant without bein
told about him by usin
dialogue An example Gol
used was to dialogue th
sergeant answering the que
tion, "What are you doing'
by saying "Eating chocolal
and killing people."
Making a writer
experience interesting an
Q. CO
i shareable with others is one of
t the hardest things to do, said
Gold, but besides using
s rhetorical possibilities, he
, added, there are other ways a
3 writer can create the ' a-ha”
experience in the reader A
i writer must use language in its
largest sense, explained Gold,
3 including using the language
) we know today
3 This is a good argument for
reading things that are less
3 than eternal because these
things are written in the
3 language we know Bob
j Dylan’s poems create feelings
in those who hear them and
v they can be sung according to
interpretation. The classic
3 stories sometimes need to be
3 refreshed by our own
3 experience
d Gold will speak again at 2:30
e p m today in Room 176,
j- Education. His appearances
are presented by the Creative
e Writing Program on campus,
through the gifts of the Time
Life Foundation and University
alumnus Kenny Moore.
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