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Thursday, March 29, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Mutual Attraction, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 24, 2012
Mutual Attraction, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 24, 2012

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Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

More Toward Realism than Fantasy

I've always been drawn more toward realism than fantasy, because it seems to me that realism is endlessly interesting and finally indeterminable. Realism is a species of fantasy that's much more integrated and hard-core than fantasy itself, but if you are ready to come to grips with the inevitable slipperiness of most available facts, you come to recognize that realism is not a direct approach to the truth so much as it is the most concentrated form of fantasy.

Birds and Lions, Norman Mailer, the New Yorker, December 23 & 30, 2002

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