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The record of a case in a text-book of psychology is scientifically true, in so far as it is an accurate account of particular events.
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But this, of course, is not the whole story. When the experiences recorded in a piece of literature correspond fairly closely with our own actual experiences, or with what I may call our potential experience experiences, that is to say, which we feel (as the result of a more or less explicit process of inference from known facts) that we might have hadwe say, inaccurately no doubt: this piece of writing is true. The truth of which I was speaking just now is in fact no more than an acceptable verisimilitude.
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For example, 2+2=4? or queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837? Or light travels at the rate of 187,000 miles a second? No, obviously, you wont find much of that sort of thing in literature. Homer, the Homer of the Odyssey is one of those few. of the great writers of the past incredibly few have given us that. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth how rarely the older literatures ever told it! Bits of the truth, yes every good book gives us bits of the truth, would not be a good book if it did not. The twelfth book of the Odyssey concludes with these words: when they had satisfied their thirst and hunger, they thought of their dear companions and wept, and in the midst of their tears sleep came gently upon them. Later, the danger passed, Odysseus and his men went ashore for the night, and, on the Sicilian beach, prepared their supper prepared it, says Homer, expertly. We can believe it Homer brief description (the too poetical simile is a later interpolation) convinces us.
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And Odysseus adds that it was the most dreadful and lamentable sight he ever saw in all his explorings of the passes of the sea. The survivors could only look on, helplessly, while Scylla at the mouth of her cave devoured them, still screaming, still stretching out their hands to me in the frightful struggle. Turning back from his post in the bows, Odysseus was in time to see them lifted, struggling, into the air, to hear their screams, the desperate repetition of his own name. There were six of them, the best and bravest of the hero companions. ►→ Huxley, Aldous – Jacob’s Hands (with Christopher Isherwood) ►→ ALDOUS HUXLEY, THE DEFEAT OF YOUTH AND OTHER POEMS ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Wordsworth in the Tropics ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Words and Behavior ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Vulgarity in Literature ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: TRAVEL The Palio at Siena ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: The Scientist’s Role ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: The Olive Tree The Tree of Life ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: The Oddest Science ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: The Desert Boundlessness and Emptiness ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Subject-Matter of Poetry ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Sermons in Cats ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Politics and Religion ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Madness, Badness, Sadness ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Knowledge and Understanding ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: Decentralization and Self-Government ►→ Aldous Huxley, Essays: LOVE, SEX, AND PHYSICAL BEAUTY ►→ Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception ►→ Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited United architects – essays table of content all sites ►→see also►→ Huxley, Aldous