"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Gwern Branwen · 30 Apr 2011, 19:30 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:30:44 -0400
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
> I've seen this part of the interview before, somehow...

It's been quoted at least once before:
http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0012/0558.shtml

It's a great quip and sums up a lot of people's impression of _The
Dispossessed_ (at least, it did mine), so I suspect it's been alluded
to or quoted before in other places.

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