<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:12 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> William Flynn Wallace [mailto:<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>] <br><br></span><u></u><u></u></b></p></span><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">>…</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">(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?)<br><br></span></b><span class=""><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">>…</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Prof: Let's talk about your master's thesis. Have you any ideas at this point about what you want to do? </span><u></u><u></u></b></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">>…</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Student: I think so. I want to find out about favors</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">…</span></b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><br>-------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">>…</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Of course this is a true story. </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">…</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Nonfiction has a fun other-worldly weirdness to it you just can’t make up.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">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 <u><i>could </i></u>make that up.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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