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To: orionblamblam; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
[ Book suggestion: "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" by Robert Heinlein. Covers that very idea. ]

So does the bible.. except in more detail with more interesting characters and a believable plot.. Hmmm that would make the bible a auto-pictography.. wouldn't it.. Whats more it would be non fiction..

"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves."-G.K. Chesterton

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense - Tom Clancy

160 posted on 06/12/2006 7:39:43 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

> So does the bible.. except in more detail with more interesting characters and a believable plot..

Huh. I drew exactly the opposite conclusion. The characters are astonishingly one-dimensional on the whole, the details are almost wholly lacking, and the plot, what little there is of one, if full of holes, deus ex machina, and is basically unrealistic, without the benefit of having really clever fantasy elements like "Lord of the Rings."


168 posted on 06/12/2006 8:23:45 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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