Seattle just spent $165 million on a new library building. The money would have been better spent hiring librarians who can tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction. An item in today's Seattle Times (print only) says that the "most popular non-fiction book" checked out from the Seattle library last year was Michael Moore's Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!.
Non-fiction would have to be the opposite of fiction. My Oxford English Dictionary defines fiction as
That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.In other words fiction is when somebody makes shit up, kind of like what Michael Moore did when he wrote that book. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 22, 2004 01:48 PM
On the bright side, it means they must be properly classifying "The DaVinci Code" as fiction
Posted by: The Yell on May 22, 2004 11:23 PMYou know nothing good can come from reading the local papers. All it's done is send you into apoplexy and if you keep reading, it's only going to get worse. On the other hand, if you don't read it, I'd have to, just so I would know what to get pissed off about.
So you just keep right on reading.
Posted by: Carol on May 23, 2004 11:15 AM