For our club, we will be using:

(Konos Connection / 1998 / Paperback)

The Definition of Fiction

fic·tion (fkshn) n.

1. a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.1. b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.2. A lie.3. a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.3. b. The category of literature comprising worksof this kind, including novels and short stories.4. Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

[Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin ficti, fictin-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]
fiction·al adj.fiction·ali·ty (-sh-nl-t) n.fiction·al·ly adv.
Word History: To most people "the latest fiction" means the latest novels or stories rather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie. All three senses of the word fiction point back to its source, Latin ficti, "the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned." Ficti in turn was derived from fingere, "to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse." Our first instance of fiction, recorded in a work composed around 1412, was used in the sense "invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented." It is not a far step from this meaning to the sense "imaginative literature," firstrecorded in 1599.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Hacked


Just to let everyone know...since Sunday, someone hacked my blogs at least twice. Does anyone know how to report this??? I've tried to report this to blogger, and have not received help yet. Does anyone know a sure way to get in contact with someone high up at blogger?
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