I agree completly,Starbucks.
' I disagree dagda,I can piece together a work of fiction based on these times and it does not make it true.Just because I mention a couple of cities and places that actually existed does not mean that it is historically correct.If I decide to use some characters that were actual persons of reknown also does not make my fictional work a reality.
If all historians thought like you dagda we would beleive every fairy tale invented by man! '
Actually, I think you will find that your fictisious story would have incredible historic value. Say yo write a spy novel based on the overthrow of Hussain in Iraq. The main character is Tom the CIA man (a fictional character) and most of the action takes place around Basra and Bagdad.
A historian in 1000 years would be able to take from this that, although the characters may be false that there may be some truth hidden away in the document.
After a long search the historian manages to take from your story that there was a war in Iraq with the goal of toppling a leader the coalition did not like, who may or may not have been called Hussain or have been a dictator. In this country is two cities called Bagdad and Basra and that there may be an organisation called the CIA and that the coalition won.
If we took your angle on history the spy novel would have been placed as purely fictional and all info on the 2nd Gulf War lost.
' I disagree dagda,I can piece together a work of fiction based on these times and it does not make it true.Just because I mention a couple of cities and places that actually existed does not mean that it is historically correct.If I decide to use some characters that were actual persons of reknown also does not make my fictional work a reality.
If all historians thought like you dagda we would beleive every fairy tale invented by man! '
Actually, I think you will find that your fictisious story would have incredible historic value. Say yo write a spy novel based on the overthrow of Hussain in Iraq. The main character is Tom the CIA man (a fictional character) and most of the action takes place around Basra and Bagdad.
A historian in 1000 years would be able to take from this that, although the characters may be false that there may be some truth hidden away in the document.
After a long search the historian manages to take from your story that there was a war in Iraq with the goal of toppling a leader the coalition did not like, who may or may not have been called Hussain or have been a dictator. In this country is two cities called Bagdad and Basra and that there may be an organisation called the CIA and that the coalition won.
If we took your angle on history the spy novel would have been placed as purely fictional and all info on the 2nd Gulf War lost.
