Re: OT: Wildepad

Wildepad wrote:

> Lawrence Block (in _Telling Lies for Fun and Profit_) calls it 'icebox
> thinking' -- "You might finish a Ludlum novel properly breathless and
> ready for bed. A couple of hours later you might wake up hungry, and
> on the way back from the icebox it might occur to you that there was
> no reason for the Estonian nationalists to put cyanide in the hero's
> peanut-butter cookies."
> 
> You can take *any* novel and find holes in the premise. The reason you
> don't see them when reading is that they become part of the
> background. 

If they're written well enough and the premises aren't completely, 
jarringly, break-suspension-of-disbelief ridiculous.  Hint, hint.

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