[ExI] Fwd: story

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:*
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> * William Flynn Wallace [mailto:foozler83 at gmail.com <foozler83 at gmail.com>]
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> *(you didn't say it had to be fiction, but still, it might not be the sort
> of thing you want - read it before I post it, OK?)**>…**Prof: Let's talk
> about your master's thesis.  Have you any ideas at this point about what
> you want to do? *
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> *>…**Student:  I think so.  I want to find out about favors**…*
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> >…Of course this is a true story.  …bill w
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>  Thanks BillW.  Nonfiction is good fiction.  Example, if you read a
> skilled fiction writer, then read that guy’s autobiography, note that the
> autobio is better than the fiction.  Example, Louis Lamour the western
> writer.  I am not a fan of that genre, but his autobio Education of a
> Wandering Man is excellent.  If one is a fan of James Michener, and come
> upon a copy of his obscure work Fires of Spring, one immediately can tell
> he was THERE.  It comes out in every comment; the characters have
> authenticity and depth.  Chaim Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev.  Of course
> Potok is Lev.  Potok witnessed the Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders
> characters, but he IS Asher Lev.  You can tell.
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> Nonfiction has a fun other-worldly weirdness to it you just can’t make up.
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> spike
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​Maybe that's why fictionalized history is so popular: a mix of what was
and what might have been. On the other hand, I 've read some fiction that
just dazzled me that someone *could *make that up.​

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