John Edgar Wideman - In Haiti, as I understand...

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

American Writer

Born: Jun 14, 1941

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Truth, History, Business, Will, Live, Entertaining, Finding, Immortality, Facts, Haiti, Most, Understand, Version, Itself, Get, Storytelling, Incident, Therefore, Necessarily

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