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   > Hi All...   
   > When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it...   
   >In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told   
   >by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence   
   > while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25   
   > million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like   
   > fables.   
      
   Hmm, any idea why it's called the "Decameron"(based on Grrco-Roman root for    
   "ten")?   
      
   Your original subject is correct -- I love reading fiction to learn of a    
   subject, place, era, or event.. . it makes it more real to me, t lidsten in   
   on  the thoughhts of those who were there.   
      
   Along with your orighinal subject, above, goes the line: "Every book is an    
   autobiography."; I fully believe this, & have learned much of authors by    
   reading their oeuvre from starty to current (or end, if deceased, discarding    
   those ghost-written because,. . greedy publishers. . )   
      
   Like I recognize Stephen King in my own childhood experiences; I fully   
   believe  he experienced cruel(way beyond normal grade school hijinks) bullying.   
      
   I wrote a story at 10yo that in retrospect was so very King-esque & I'd never    
   heard of him (this was 3 years before "Carrie") - creepy/freaky. . .   
      
   Inew was far mnore grasphic in its violence & gore, but then I was only ten,    
   with zxero formal trainng in writing. (we might say I was introduced to it   
   the  year before, & took to it like a dry fish to water, but subsequent events   
   in my life distrated me from this hobby, & it seems it's been lost (I know,   
   deep  down, this isn't truye-- but I think my tiome to reconnect with it is   
   for  later, in retirement, when I actually know some stuff worthy of writing   
   partial autobiographies(novels)) using.   
      
      
      
      
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