The beauty and breakthrough of Capote's In Cold Blood is not, as Shafer suggests, that it used real facts, but that it brought a new level of writing to the rendering of real facts.
Poetry depends on precision, and fantasy in art on a faith that the narrow rendering of fact will be odder than anything we can imagine.
To whom shall we entrust the rendering of this moment and its attendant verities — the artist or the correspondent, the purveyors of fictions or the gatherers of facts?
"There is merely the confrontation of the theoretic system with a certain rendering of the facts" (Whitehead 1978, 343).
But the new documentary, alongside other pieces of research, shows the very real and devastating effect of this simplified rendering of the facts.
Instead, everything is rendered in the most matter-of-fact tones, very plain.
He wrote of his seminal "Analysis" studio project: "Neither the definitive exposition of fact nor the meticulous rendering of description can hope to evoke the mysterious life embodied in enduring architecture".
2. "Confucianism," the conventional English rendering of Ru, is in fact a poor equivalent for the Chinese term, which has a connotation more similar to "classicist" or "ritualist".
The Imaginary – beautifully illustrated by Emily Gravett – is a feisty, matter-of-fact rendering of one girl's relationship with her imaginary friend, Rudger.
"Rendered as descriptions of fact, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their fundamental explanatory force" (1980, 75).
