What would this mythical, totally imaginary, truth-telling candidate say?
The reason, though, is not that he had access to the deeper truth about the Holocaust, but that powerful longings are easily, if temporarily, drawn into imaginary satisfactions.
It is an imaginary story whose truth is assumed because it seems to make morality possible.
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Elsewhere he draws a distinction between real relations like truth and imaginary relations such as falsehood.
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The story recounts the disjointed recollections of an imprisoned member of the renegade Memorialists – a tribe trying to revive the ancient "art of memory" – who constructs an imaginary environment of misremembered half-truths on the walls of his cell.
"Many of those demons are imaginary, but all of them have truths to tell us.
Still, it bears noting that the appendix for "Nuts!" won't appear until months after the film has been seen in theaters, plenty of time for viewers to internalize the filmmaker's imaginary characters and outright fictions as historical truth.
The best historical fiction delivers emotional truth through the lives of imaginary but ordinary people, making it possible to feel the texture of events that have been smoothed out by the generalizations of conventional histories.
