Practice question · Multiple choice
What is the decisive asymmetry between a historian and a novelist?
Hints
- Both use narrative. Both make choices. What can only one of them do?
- What happens when a historian adds a duke to the room?
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B. The novelist may invent; the historian may not
Why
Add a duke to the room and the novelist has done the job while the historian has committed fraud. Both narrate; only one is permitted to invent, and that single rule survives everything the linguistic turn threw at it.
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