Phil Sandifer wrote
The problem is... well, let's pull up a solid
midlist Marvel
character - Speedball. 1603 word article. Only 500 words of that
pertain to the real world instead of the fictional world of the
comics. That's the problem. Fancruft is in many ways a poor choice of
terms for this.
Fair point. I think what Phil is saying is like this: people tend to write without
'breaking the fourth wall', in a voice that suspends the disbelief. But this is
surely a larger issue, anyway. Just take a Greek myth. You can read it in an integrated
account; or sourced to the texts. Robert Graves's notorious 'Greek Myths'
basically gives you the choice. I guess most people read the fluent versions, not the
notes (which ironically are full of the most flagrant OR, as is well known ...).
Charles
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