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To: DMaA who wrote (167299)	5/23/2006 7:56:25 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 794268

If you're saying there's no truth in fiction or movies and they have no influence on people, I'd say you are in a distinct minority. I'm not saying there is NO truth in fiction. Writers have to start with enough truth to enable the reader to suspend disbelief. If it had no truth, then it would be utterly unbelievable and the work would fail. Getting the reader to suspend disbelief during the course of reading the book is the key to a good yarn. But neither is fiction ALL truth. That is by definition. If it were all truth it wouldn't be fiction. Duh. As for influence, of course fiction influences. It influences in many ways. One of them, however, is not as a source of fact. That is for other vehicles, although fiction might make us curious enough about a subject to go learn the actual facts. If you look to fiction for your facts, I'd say you are in a distinct minority. I recommend a dictionary. The dictionary is very clear about fiction not being real even if some people aren't.