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From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> >
> > On 10/18/2026 3:28 AM, Hibou wrote:
> > > Le 18/10/2026 à 07:07, BobbieSellers a écrit :
> > >> On 10/17/26 22:38, The Starmaker wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I never read a fiction book
> > >>> and I certaintly never read
> > >>> a science fiction book
> > >>
> > >> Â Â Â Â Â Nor do ever appear to even cracked
> > >> any book especially not even one on classical
> > >> physicw. [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > I plonked The Starmaker a while back, but it seems hard to believe that
> > > someone has never read a work of fiction, not even as a youthful
> > > experiment.
> > >
> > Especially as it is mandatory to read some assigned fiction in almost
> > all schools.
> >
> > --
> 
> By "mandatory", do you mean Homework???
> 
> i don't recall if they gave out fiction books to students to read at
> home.
> 
> How does that work? Does everybody get a copy of Moby Dick to take
> home??
> 
> All i know is i didn't do my homework.
> 
> and wats wrong wit dat?
> 
> i probably read more non-fiction books than any kid in New York City!
> 
> Did you know Al Capone killed a prosecutor to stay of of jail?
> 
> dats wat i call a free get-of-jail card!



What does 'stranger than fiction' mean??? Non-Fiction??




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The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.