It's not a headline, it's the title of an essay. What do you mean by 'saves time'? When you read a novel, do you replace the character names with "a figment of

It's not a headline, it's the title of an essay. What do you mean by 'saves time'? When you read a novel, do you replace the character names with "a figment of my, the author's, imagination"? It's not a fucking diary entry claiming to be reporting on an objective fact of the world, it's someone trying to communicate something about the world. Really, all you can think when you read a title like this is "well, that's certainly not true for me, I don't have to read this"?