Well, I think it becomes a question of how we as language users construct the imagined production process. I'm not going to assume the novel I'm reading is from Mars until I have reason to believe it--and until I do, the notion of its novel-ness hasn't been problematized for me. I think there a certain set of assumptions we routinely make about the people who post at FF.net.
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:29 pm (UTC)