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Old June 18th, 2007, 06:42 AM
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Default Re: OT: Which Discworld character are you?

That's quite a difference from 'lies', though.

Heh. Try classifying fiction. It contains truth, but didn't actually happen. It's not a lie, because everyone knows it didn't happen and there is no intent to decieve.

It can't all be stuck under titles like 'Metaphor', because some of it deals with self-contained concepts that aren't ways of teaching real-life lessons.

And then you get into things like 'If I imagine something, just how real is it - And what is it about the imagination that allows it to concieve of things that are impossible?'

Which leads to the idea that the mind is, in fact, at least in potential, infinite.

How else do you classify the ability to concieve of impossibilities and the entirely new?
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