The Dawg with a very nice pull! Yes, yessssssss, yesssssssssss!
Interesting quote to bring up; was just having this discussion with a book agent re: the nature of memoir (i.e., the James Frey thing). People expect memoirs to be "true" -- but the truth, pun intended, is that they're only true for that moment.
What is the truth of this situation? One of the key questions in Peaks and Valleys. A better frame might be "what is the truth in this moment?" Because if we're all to be believed, Truth is an abstraction. It has no corporeal presence.
This all sits very nicely with me, being an SP (secular-progressive) and a Constructionist (in philosophical/epistemological terms) to boot. Which means that, as Giambattista Vico said, "Verum ipsum factum" -- truth itself is constructed. Or, in Kierkegaard's formulation, "truth is subjectivity."
This does have a way of confounding the notion of the 180, though. Since, if there is no True Starting Point from which one can turn, when does one know one has turned 180-degrees?
