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Fiction Is Like A Spider's Web, Attached Ever So Lightly Perhaps, But Still Attached To Life At All Four Corners.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but
still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is
scarcely perceptible.
-- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. A Room Of One's Own,
ch. 3 (1929).
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