Word: hoaxing
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...LIFE AS A FAKE By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else a lesson about reality and fakery? It's his life, not theirs, that is changed. Inspired by a legendary literary hoax in Australia, the Booker winner's new novel delves satisfyingly into a world of lies, literary demons and artistic pretense...
Finkelstein said that borrowing citations from Peters’ book is worse than borrowing from others because, he asserts, the book is biased and unreliable. “He not only plagiarized, but he plagiarized from a certifiable hoax...
...neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos. My Life As A Fake By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else a lesson about reality and fakery? It's his life, not theirs, that is changed. Inspired by a legendary literary hoax in Australia, the Booker winner's new novel delves satisfyingly into a world of lies, literary demons and artistic pretense. The Lady And The Unicorn By Tracy Chevalier Is life ever as neat as it looks in art? Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) ventures back into art history and returns...
...should not. The sanctity of marriage between one woman and one man, normally resulting in procreation, is the very foundation of our culture. As the U.S. continues its embrace of the "acceptance is divine" hoax, our culture is being erased. Do we not lament the demise of Native American cultures? Why then do we not make efforts to strengthen our own culture? Despite the force-fed propaganda, homosexuality is not normal behavior and should not be endorsed as such. Dwayne Schatz Titusville...
...this oft-told tale another Founders myth, like Washington's confessing to axing his father's cherry tree? The latest skepticism is voiced in a quirky new book, Bolt of Fate (Public Affairs), that calls the whole thing a hoax, echoing the spoofs Franklin confected for Poor Richard's Almanack. But author Tom Tucker's evidence is slim. He makes much of the improbability of flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific...