In Fiction
In the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October, Captain Mancuso claims to civilian authorities in Norfolk that the eponymous vessel is the Sceptre in order to avert suspicion from its arrival in the harbor.
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“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)