"For both art and life depend wholly on the laws of optics, on perspective and illusion; both, to be blunt, depend on the necessity of error."
- Nietzsche, "A Critical Backward Glance," The Birth of Tragedy
Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press, 1993. Pg. 171
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The "error" being spoken of here by Nietzsche is a subjective point of view that distorts "reality," but informs a narrative.
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