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Why Fiction? For many of us the fact that someone would ask it is mind-boggling but it is a valid question. "Frivolous" literature has often been seen as harmful through history. On the other hand story-telling and myth is something that humans have been creating since time began but why? I think the word "why" lies at the core.That lightning strike that lit a fire somewhere in Africa that started it all. The first one to see it who felt that sense of wonder and curiosity, why did it hit? Why does it have different colors? It moves, what if it is alive? If it's is alive, does it feel as I do, think as I do? Can I communicate with it? Maybe make it work for me? And from that long thread back in time you can can connect to an Urban Fantasy book about raging fire Djin. Fiction can broaden the mind, give you new why's and what if's as well as entertain. Sitting in a cave, learning about the inside of that cave will teach you lots about caves but it won't make you want to go outside.
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