TERRILL LANKFORD (TOLANKFORD@webtv.net)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
PABERGIN wrote:
"Spillane's greatest (of many) failures as a writer is that
he lived in a world that he WISHED to exist -- not the one
that actually did exist."
Doesn't this describe (at least) 99% of all fiction writers?
Novelists
(in particular) create their own worlds, people them and play
out the results. Hopefully the reader buys the fabrication as
something real, but it is still the writer's vision of the
world as they have chosen to define it.
I sure don't think anyone could accuse Raymond Chandler of
writing
"stark realism". His world is every bit as false as Mickey's
(if not moreso), but still highly entertaining.
TL
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