The Thin White Duke alleged to be a Nazi salute. Bowie denied this, saying that he was simply waving and the photographer captured his image mid-wave. As early as 1976, Bowie began disavowing his allegedly pro-Fascist comments and said that he was misunderstood. In an interview that year in the "Daily Express", he explained that while performing in his various characters, "I'm Pierrot. I'm Everyman. What I'm doing is theatre, and only theatre... What you see on stage isn't sinister. It's pure clown. I'm using myself as a canvas and trying to paint the truth of our time on it. The white face, the
When a white horse is not a horse term" and "shi" "solid; true, actual; fact, reality", and abstract "zhi" "finger; pointing; designation; universal" like "whiteness" and concrete "wu" "thing; object; particular" like a "white horse". The Chinese of "a white horse is not a horse" is "bai ma fei ma" 白馬非馬, whose meaning hinges upon the negative "fei" "not, is not; no, negative; oppose; wrong". The Classical construction "A "fei" B" "A非B" can ambiguously mean either "A is not a member of the class B" or "A is not identical to B". Interpreting this equivocation fallacy, A.C. Graham says this "white horse" vs. "horse" paradox plays upon the