Why did I fabricate Bob Dylan quotes?
Please read this column I just published now,
I quote Professor Kahneman’s new notes
that tell the story—not just why, but how
a person as intelligent as I
would write the column I just published now
and then recycle it the moment my
New Yorker reputation needs a boost.
A person as intelligent as I
has a propensity, like Marcel Proust,
to make sure each and every detail fits.
If my good reputation needs a boost,
it’s not because I fabricated, it’s
because some readers haven’t had a chance
to make sure each and every detail fits.
Aren’t you curious about my stance?
Why did I fabricate Bob Dylan quotes?
Please give my article a second chance:
I quote extensively Kahneman’s notes.
A mathematician by profession, Pedro Poitevin is a bilingual poet living in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He is a contributor to Letras Libres. Other poems have appeared in Mathematical Intelligencer, Boston Literary Magazine, and Shit Creek Review, and other venues.
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