340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Imagination in Nonfiction
People have vivid imaginations, even when they're just consciously making stuff up. So why wouldn't it be possible that people misinterpret things and think they're writing nonfiction, but it's really just coming from their imagination? The audience for that sort of thing has been going longer than the written word itself, longer than the book. And one particular thing before we move on, some people would tell us about, you know, after a book they particularly enjoyed,after they put it down, some characters would keep talking. They would start commentating on what's going on in their lives. Or the reader themselves would start thinking like a particular character,. Like in the style of the way a
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