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fabulate
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fab·u·late  (fby-lt)
intr.v. fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing, fab·u·lates
To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play: "a land which . . . had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling" (Lawrence Durrell).
[Latin fbulr, fbult-, to talk, from fbula, tale, talk; see fable.]
fabu·lation n.
fabu·lator n.


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If so, I suspect that the abstractions of the 1950s should be likened to Freudian screen memories, a pictorial barrier fabricated to mask content more terrible and never fully worked through--at least not until, that is, Guston recollected them once and for all in the grand fabulations (two titles, Allegory, 1975, and Legend, 1977, trumpet their made-up nature) of his final two decades.
Telling tales by Anfam, David / Artforum International
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