the new limits of "novel" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Mar 28 22:03:22 UTC 2011


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>
> I don't want to think so. Surely the boundary between "fiction" and
"drama"
> is still widely recognized. It's easier to assume that somebody at CNN
just
> didn't know what he was talking about.
>


" It's easier to assume that somebody at [any given media or internet
outlet; a political office; anyplace with a microphone or keyboard] just
didn't know what he was talking about."

I propose this as Lighter's Law.

I predict it will zoom past Murphy's in importance as the years go by.


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