I was faced with a difficult decision today.
In light of the twitter fallout and a mass exodus of new users being introduced to Mastodon and joining the fediverse for the first time, the server for baraag buckled at the influx of traffic. I thought I had more time to upgrade the server but I am unable to immediately address all this new activity to keep up with it.
But fiction can also be an examination of the truth, art imitating life. But what about when real spontaneity action is caught on film and then turned into a fiction, what if it is used to tell a story that never was, overtly, with narrative that never was, superimposed over the images, via sound or subtitles, or perhaps even through more images, invented images. What is this? Is it fiction, or is it fact? Is it both? Impossible. It can't be both. It can have both within it, but it can't be both. And so if it has both, is it not a fiction still, for any fiction with a fact within it is still a fiction. Just as any clock which is only right twice a day is still broken, or any liar who tells the truth once by happenstance is not made into a trustworthy person.
The Trench