Word: fakeness
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...Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world. But in a universe where so much is false, why should poetry, or any art, be required to stand on terra firma? All the same, there's no mistaking one fact. My Life as a Fake is the real thing. --By Richard Lacayo
Truth is a slippery thing. Just ask Peter Carey. In True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the Booker Prize three years ago, the cunning Australian built a palace of fiction from the "true story" of a legend, the Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. For My Life as a Fake (Knopf; 266 pages), his point of departure is an even more intricate falsehood, the Ern Malley affair...
...making game-changing plays on offense, defense and special teams, as captain Dante Balestracci did. The middle linebacker rushed for eight yards on a fake punt play, put constant smothering pressure on Yale QB Alvin Cowan, recording one-and-a-half sacks, and blocked an extra-point attempt. Not surprisingly, the jack-of-all-trades also recovered Yale’s fourth-quarter onsides kick...
Students—surprised to hear the news yesterday—said the change would spice up their social lives, giving them an extra day to use a fake ID or a reason not to go to church...
Yalies may be the primary market for New Haven merchants, but the students are the least of the worries of the New Haven Police Department. One of the fringe benefits of living in a city ridden with murderers, drug dealers and rapists is that trying to pass off a fake ID doesn’t really seem like such a crime...