Your Mission (Part III): Think

Fat. Linear. Sense.

Put "non" in front of any of those words and you make their opposites: Nonfat frozen yogurt has no fat in it. Nonlinear means no line, at least not a straight one. And nonsense makes no sense.

By that logic, then, nonfiction is the opposite of fiction.

Run that idea through your noodle for a little bit. Is that statement fundamentally true or false? Can you think of examples that support your stance on the matter? Use your noodlings to start staking out your own definitions of those two terms (fiction and nonfiction) and, just as important, the troubled and/or fertile territory between them.

Think you got it sorted out? Okay, read this. And, while you're at it, also this.

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Aug 12) I want to have a discussion about what we mean by nonfiction. And, while we're at it, we might talk about the BIG IDEA of TRUTH (and its kissin' cousin, REALITY).

(JUSTICE and THE AMERICAN WAY will have to wait, but we'll get to them too...)

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