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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Even fiction does not necessarily give one the freedom to cast aside reality. If a novel is apparently set in the real world (or as close to the real world as any work of literature can get), then it needs to play by certain rules. No one would take an author very seriously if he said that Paris was on the Rhine and that Rome was in Spain.
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My thoughts _exactly_ about computers in Stieg Larsson's
Millenium series. I couldn't have said it better, so I'm glad to find it so eloquantly said!
(I'm aware of course you were not saying that about that particular book
