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But it was Over To You, his collection of second world war pilot stories – their chilling blend of truth and madness, like war itself – that blitzed my 11-year-old brain.
But Stothard's artful blend of truth and fiction is the right device, as it was once for Tacitus and Seneca, to nail the absurdity of those times – just as novelists Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan are "often better than the best journalism".
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Sally Wingert, as the "far too saucy" servant, Dorine, comes closest to achieving the difficult Molière blend of truth-telling and humor.
But the question raises a subject that "increasingly worries me as a writer … the blending of truth and fiction in one story".
Mr. Jobs, who founded Apple with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976, began his career as a seemingly contradictory blend of hippie truth seeker and tech-savvy hothead.
While Kaufman's script is the usual blend of emotional truth and mind-boggling narrative invention, Gondry earns plaudits both for drawing unexpectedly engaging performances from his cast and for eschewing expensive special effects in favour of the inventively mechanical visual solutions which characterised his pop videos.
They are, typically, a complex blend of fiction and truth, with the fiction taking the lead and bending the empirical facts to fit the story.
The sort-of truth?
Mr Quine developed a theory of language according to which truths of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no absolute distinction between the two.
His message was a blend of Corinthians and Hallmark, gospel truth and pop psychology, rendered in the style of a convention center motivational speech.
"By hinting at different time periods, or blending them, we can get at a different kind of truth," Mr. Mitchell said.
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