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Old 02-14-2010, 07:07 AM   #142
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Actually, I think that sometimes the fiction author may convey the meaning of an idea, of some factual knowledge, a great deal better than the non-ficition writer. Sometimes, perhaps only the fiction-writer, the author, can truly relate the ideas.
Quite so. It is one thing to introduce an idea in the abstract - quite another to bring it alive through a story.
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