Summary

Chapter g is titled “blur.” The author begins this chapter, in number 184, with the suggestion that the distinction between fiction and non-fiction is “utterly useless,” given that the former is often “immensely autobiographical” and the latter is often “highly imagined” (63).

Then, in numbers 185 through 197, the text offers several considerations of how the lines between fiction and non-fiction are in fact blurred, almost by definition. The text also suggests that even journalistic writing is as shaped by a desire to tell a clear, engaging story, just like a more memoir-like work of non-fiction or fiction itself. The text goes as far as to suggest that all writing, journalistic or non-fiction or fiction, is lying, which is then defined as an activity or a behavior fundamental to nature in general, and to human nature in particular.

In numbers 198 through 206, the text offers considerations...