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There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

Don DeLillo
Real, Thinking, Confusion
"DeLillo's Novel Look at Oswald: Rescuing History From Confusion". Interview with Elizabeth Mehren, perival.com. August 12, 1988.
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.