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Sam Witwicky ([personal profile] not_so_smooth) wrote2008-10-05 11:05 pm

34th Transformation

Okay, this may be a stupid question but I just thought of it tonight and I'm seriously losing sleep over it.

At the library here, how do they figure out which books go in the fiction section and which go in the non-fiction section?

[identity profile] not-so-smooth.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
All that stuff that happened to those people is real to them though, isn't it?

[identity profile] halfvulcan.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, and events written within works of Historical Fiction are also real. An author may speculate, however, upon the feelings, spirit, manners, and social conditions of the subject. Non-fiction allows only for the presentation of fact.

[identity profile] not-so-smooth.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that makes sense, I guess. Do you spend a lot of times in the library?

[identity profile] halfvulcan.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Where I am from, information is all stored electronically as opposed to on paper, but I do often spend time reading.

[identity profile] not-so-smooth.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
We have a lot of stuff in my world stored electronically too, but books are still mostly used for most things.