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>if a book has an index it's non-fiction. I've read an awful lot of novels and not a single one has had an index.
by na85 5y ago
>if a book has an index it's non-fiction.
I've read an awful lot of novels and not a single one has had an index.
- contingencies 5y agoYes, exactly the point. It feels as if education has dropped to the point where poor heuristics are commonly deployed in lieu of comprehension.
- deertick1 5y agoMan I was just thinking about this last night. I recall an assignent in middle school where I had to write a poem with a simile in it (among ither literary devices) I lost points because there was no simile. When I went to the teacher and told her "there is a simile : 'the cat fell in much the same way as a boulder' " (or something to that effect) I was told similes have to have the word 'like' or 'as' in them. Which is just not true but has become such a common hueristic that even English teachers think its the definition of a simile. sigh I totally did that on purposes though cause I wanted to see if she would dock me a point for that. I was such a little prick.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoBeing a prick to clueless teachers was a perverse joy of mine in my K–12 years. I enjoyed coming up with the most galaxy-brained solutions to assignments.
- mbrodersen 5y agoSame. However I went too far. A philosophy teacher left the class room, and refused to continue teaching my class, after I politely started arguing against her reasoning and showing counter examples. They had to find another teacher to take over the class.
- eropple 5y agoI believe the thinking is that it's the need for that as an ontological divide, rather than "it's telling a story about a thing that didn't happen". The divide being "heuristics about things it has" rather than "critical analysis of what it is".
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoLord Of The Rings has one.
- KineticLensman 5y agoThe Lord of the Rings has an index. Only one I can think of.
- moogly 5y agoRobert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" books.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoHouse of Leaves is another. It also has footnotes.
- KineticLensman 5y ago> footnotes Footnotes. I hadn't thought about footnotes. The winner here has to be Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, some of whose footnotes are micro stories thrown in as a bonus for attentive readers. Although Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell doesn't have an index.