The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

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Anything Arbitrary Classified Fiction Invented Made Me Nonfiction Notion Other Presumably Separation Strikes Things Up Very Wholly Writing

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