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None of this is surprising. Fiction writers aren't just "making stuff up" but using characters to tell a deeper truth as they understand it. I read novels to dwell among the nuances of the world--cultural, physical, social--the author lives in, one he understands better than I ever could. I'm also alert to how creative and intelligent people can tend to moralize things that are morally neutral, like landscapes. Coming from Los Angeles there's...a lot of that..."this place with its sinister palm trees" LOL. Still, reading to me is a kind of mind-to-mind exercise.
I'm very curious, when talking about books, about how strictly non-fiction readers tend to make that assertion very quickly, very firmly. Have you ever noticed it? As if to establish some position about themselves and/or fiction. I also love the discipline of bringing my own curiosity and intuition to bear on "factual units." But even "non-fiction" is narrative, curated facts of another human mind.
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