Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:51:18 06/07/01
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On June 07, 2001 at 14:20:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >If Mark Twain has ever followed the advices about writting given here, where >people concerned with facts and data are numerous, we would have boring articles >about how long Missisipi is and where are the sources of it instead of >you-know-what. >Tim, I am suspecting we are twin brothers. >Fernando No... you are missing the point. Nobody says an article has to be full of dry and uninteresting facts. But the few facts that are given, _must_ be reasonably accurate. IE in Twain's writings, you won't find him saying that the Mississippi enters the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and San Francisco. That is a bit too much "literary license" to take... If someone chooses to give _no_ facts at all in a story (we sometimes call those editorials) that is ok. But if a fact is given, it should be true...
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