Word: fictionalizations
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...lower regions, and I know perfectly well that most of the students are under the tyranny of Goodies, Pocos, and Janitors. It may not be generally known that a volume of miscellaneous essays which Leibnitz presented to the Library has been recently discovered in overhauling the department of fiction; in a short dissertation on "Evil," he explains that the condition of students in college buildings is the only thing that causes him to hesitate for a single moment in his theory of Sufficient Reason...
What a jumble of much fancy, more fiction, and little truth! What a parade of illogical thoughts! What a procession of ill-constructed sentences! And what shall one say of the system that produces such a result? what of the tree that bears such fruit? Does it not deserve to be cast down and thrown into the fire...
...poetry of the last number of the Yale Record is unusually good. "Vacation" might have been written by Edgar Fawcett, and the rhythm of "Madelina" is worthy of Poe, if it is not imitated from him. We clip the following, which is not poetry, but fiction...
SCENE, a game of clumps. "Is it in a work of fiction?" "Yes." "Written at the beginning of the Christian era?" "Yes." ABSENT-MINDED MAN (eagerly). "Is it in the Bible?" (Fact...
...fiction, the finest passages are seldom selected by the ordinary vandal; here, at least, he marks the best known parts, avoiding love passages lest he may seem sentimental...