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Page 78
Make- believe is their reality , and the public , which is at once their material and their judge , is also their dupe . Be- cause make - believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe .
Make- believe is their reality , and the public , which is at once their material and their judge , is also their dupe . Be- cause make - believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe .
Page 100
For the drama is make - believe . It does not deal with truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest ...
For the drama is make - believe . It does not deal with truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest ...
Page 149
The shock is so great that you no longer believe , and when you do not believe in a novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the cour- age to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your ...
The shock is so great that you no longer believe , and when you do not believe in a novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the cour- age to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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