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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Well that's just silly. Of course fiction exists.
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I am reminded of the famous letter to the editor.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"erictoma say there is no fiction.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there fiction?"
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is fiction. Fiction exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no fiction. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.