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The Editor's Place

The Editor's Place LOGOS 124 LOGOS 13/3 © WHURR PUBLISHERS 2002 I am ill-equipped to contribute to the Horvath/ Abel debate on fiction vs non-fiction because I read very little fiction. Until about 1960, I read fiction and non-fiction impartially. Then my taste for fic- tion left me, and I am not sure why. My explana- tion, at least my excuse, is that I became too busy for escapist reading. My reading time became mostly professionally linked, but this alibi ceased to be valid in 1990, when I became my own master. I have promised various fiction-loving friends to diagnose my abstinence from fiction, which they regard as a regrettable, but curable, allergy. My resistance to fiction was illustrated when I assembled, over five years in the 1990s, a memorial library of the literature of the Burma Campaign from 1942 to 1945. The bibliography totalled more than 1,000 titles, of which I read 700. Of the remaining 300, 200 comprised the fiction section. Suspecting, perhaps worrying, that I am lock- ing myself out of some great experiences, I have started reading reviews of fiction and asking my friends for recommendations. Betty says I should read Girl with a Pearl Earring by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

The Editor's Place

Logos , Volume 13 (3): 124 – Jan 1, 2002
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Brill
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
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10.2959/logo.2002.13.3.124
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LOGOS 124 LOGOS 13/3 © WHURR PUBLISHERS 2002 I am ill-equipped to contribute to the Horvath/ Abel debate on fiction vs non-fiction because I read very little fiction. Until about 1960, I read fiction and non-fiction impartially. Then my taste for fic- tion left me, and I am not sure why. My explana- tion, at least my excuse, is that I became too busy for escapist reading. My reading time became mostly professionally linked, but this alibi ceased to be valid in 1990, when I became my own master. I have promised various fiction-loving friends to diagnose my abstinence from fiction, which they regard as a regrettable, but curable, allergy. My resistance to fiction was illustrated when I assembled, over five years in the 1990s, a memorial library of the literature of the Burma Campaign from 1942 to 1945. The bibliography totalled more than 1,000 titles, of which I read 700. Of the remaining 300, 200 comprised the fiction section. Suspecting, perhaps worrying, that I am lock- ing myself out of some great experiences, I have started reading reviews of fiction and asking my friends for recommendations. Betty says I should read Girl with a Pearl Earring by

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