<Sigh> If I am agreeing with you (and mind you, I have not been DISagreeing with you), that means you are agreeing with virtually everyone else here, that "fictitious" means "non-existent." In other words, Acorn's data base (again, if I remember correctly) provides non-existent articles, non-existent authors, non-existent publishers, non-existent dates, etc., and then teaches you the techniques needed to track down that non-existent information.
Those techniques, of course, work equally well in finding real information, which is the point. |