STRANGER THAN TRUTH (Sep, 1936)
Isn’t the idea that fiction is stranger than truth kind of the default assumption?
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I’d say the opposite. “Truth is stranger than fiction” has been a well-worn cliche ever since Lord Byron coined the phrase* back in 1823.
*His actual words were, “truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction”. It’s from the poem “Don Juan”.
@ Charlene -Of course truth is stranger than fiction, there are only a finite number of people working on fiction.
The saying “truth is stranger than fiction”, while not really true, acknowledges that sometimes things happen in real life that would seem too contrived or coincidental to put in a story. But fantasy, horror, and science-fiction include events that just don’t happen in real life (in some cases, yet) which is, of course, the point of the ad.