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Originally Posted by pompeylass
I met a lady on a coach trip a while back, and I asked her what her reading habits were, She said "I only read true stuff", as opposed to made-up stuff; her definition of fiction and non-fiction.
But, you're right! How true is true?
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In a sense all fiction is "true" in that it is true to the fictive world it creates. It sets up rules and follows them. Even the worlds of science fiction have rules which their creators have to follow in order to render those worlds "realistic." And the human characters in these worlds have to follow rules which are essentially "human" and which the reader recognizes as such. Without characters who love, hate, laugh, cry, and in a general sense, feel you would have a fiction which nobody would want to read, because nobody could identify with it.
And, by the way, I'm always right ... it's my one failing.
