A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be

A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant.

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This quote from David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks" emphasizes the idea that narratives and identities must be fully formed rather than incomplete or ambiguous. Just as pregnancy is a distinct state, a book's genre should be definitive, either wholly fantasy or not. This statement provokes thought about the boundaries of literary classifications and challenges the notion of mixing genres without a clear purpose.

Furthermore, by drawing a parallel between literature and...

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