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Article: History and AIDS in Was and Angels in America.
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- June 22, 2008
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It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever
possible. And then use them against each other.
Geoff Ryman, Was: A Novel
I usually say, "Fuck the truth," but mostly, the truth fucks you.
Prior Walter, Angels in America
Early in part one of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, Millennium Approaches, Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS, and Harper Pitt, a Valium addicted Mormon housewife, meet in a mutual dream/hallucination; during their virtual conversation they discuss the apparent inability of the imagination to chart the unknown, to go beyond the finiteness of the world. As Harper explains:
So when we think we've ...