On Feb 22, 5:03Â pm, "Mark Earnest"
yahoo.com> wrote:> "TruthSlave"
home.com> wrote in messagenews:fpne3r$moc$1@aioe.org...>> Mark Earnest wrote:
>>> In libraries, why do you suppose books are divided into non-fiction and
>>> fiction?
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>>> Why aren't the the two called fact and false?
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>>> Could it be this way, perhaps, because everyone somehow knows that
>>> fiction is not false at all?
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>>> I think that by dividing libraries in this way, we are saying that
>>> fiction is true: just
>>> reality in a poetic, very expressive, and perhaps symboled way.
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>>> Surely if fiction were false, no one would enjoy it at all.
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>>> So next time you comment "it is just fantasy!," think about how a
>>> librarian
>>> might react to such a statement.
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>> So tell me, what books / stories / movies {as the equivalent}
>> would you say were more than fiction?
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> I agree with 2001, and would add The Martian Chronicles, Gulliver's Travels,
> The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars.
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>> In no particular order, I'd start the ball roiling with, The Time
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, the story of the Depression era
Okies, whether the book or the movie version, has to be one of the
most politically persuasive works ever.
The popular best-sellers of hero-villain books by John Grisham may be
simplistic for a few critics and snotty-sophisticates, often
substantively bashing the h out of the on-going injustices,
contradictions, foibles, follies, f-ups of perverse workings of the
legal realm.
THE JUNGLE by Upton Sinclair, early 20th century, dramatized poor
packing-house conditions, and is considered influential in the
establishing the Federal Food & Drug Act and inspections.
