> On Feb 22, 5:03 pm, "Mark Earnest" yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>"TruthSlave" home.com> wrote in messagenews:fpne3r$moc$1@aioe.org...
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>>>Mark Earnest wrote:
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>>>>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.
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> 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.
>