Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make my living writing science-fiction . . . and characters like Wiener are lousing up the racket...
...David Herbert Lawrence (died 1930), come back like an indignant ghost to nag the torpid flesh of Anglo-Saxons. It is not a pleasant voice: few of D. H. Lawrence's letters to his "friends" (victims would be a better word) show the genius that illuminated his fiction and poetry. It is a hectoring, querulous, spiteful voice, polite when it fears that it has aroused anger; but, once reassured by the listener's forgiveness, instantly rude and bullying again...
...substitute for artistic creation"), and the charm of new-blooming domesticity is making his old notions about art-for-art's-sake look rather silly. So Mr. Shelleyblake signs the contract and goes home to write-what? Well, at least he knows it has to be fiction and run to about 300 pages...
...FICTION...
...World War II receded, its outline seemed to become clearer-in non-fiction as in fiction. First had come the journalists-putting down history on the run. Now came the participants with their memoirs. Though the.r reticences and their partisanship inevitably left plenty of work for the future historian, the generals and the statesmen were responsible for some of this year's best books...