> The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ―Tom Clancy Sometimes making sense is the whole point of a story. It turns the random

> The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ―Tom Clancy Sometimes making sense is the whole point of a story. It turns the random events around us into a narrative which is plausible. How well the causal relations in a story map to reality is a different questions. It goes from Einstein "riding on light beams" over "atoms are like the solar system" to religious beliefs like a flying spaghetti monster.