Or at least using it in schools. Fiction = lies, after all @SylosonsCloak
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I'm afraid I'm not sure what the reference is here, and a quick search doesn't turn up anything relevant.
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as I recall, Tolstoy stopped writing fiction because he said he wanted to stop lying to readers
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I'm looking around since I am curious about it, but haven't found this yet.
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Replying to @CheshireOcelot
ok, having tracked this down a bit, it was thirdhand info which I suspect came from a slight misinterpretation of a
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statement on page 252 of Tolstoy: A Russian Life indicating that "he did not stop writing fiction entirely, but it became
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secondary to the more pressing task of exposing the hypocrisy and immorality he saw around him."
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Replying to @HbdNrx
got it, thanks. IIRC St. Thomas Aquinas stopped writing near the end of his life, so there are authors who do this sort of thing.
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