One of my best teachers in school once illustrated the
difference between
"real life" and "fiction" by telling me:
"In real life, I person walks down the street and slips on a
banana. In fiction, the person walks down the street, slips
on a banana and is helped by a perfect stranger who they fall
desperately in love with."
Okay, that sounds a bit too romantic, but we can change it
to:
"In real life, I person walks down the street and slips on a
banana. In fiction, the person walks down the street, slips
on a banana and is helped by a perfect stranger who draws
them into a world of crime and debauchery."
I've always thought that was a great way to dispel the excuse
of "But it really happened!" - For that, we have the
non-fiction section of the bookstore.
Steve
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This talk of the "it really happened" defense reminds me
that, in an interview (in Rolling Stone?), John Irving said
students often whined that in repsonse to his criticism. His
stock response was that there was no real story that could
not be made better.
Mark
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