I mentioned in the last post that I was going to be writing a bit more about how suspension of disbelief tends towards realism. I have about six thoughts on this and I’m going to try and put most of them down in some coherent manner. Continue reading
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Realism in Fiction
“The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy.
Or any of the other variants by Lord Byron (Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction) or Mark Twain (Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn’t), or any of the other similar attributions. I ended up finding about five or six different attributions for similar quotes, including a couple of unconfirmed attributions.