Peter Jiong
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- Europe
It is an axiom of narration that truth should coincide with probability, and the realist is perpetually hampered by the wild exaggeration of actual facts; a verbatim report of the conversation at Mrs. Branderton’s dinner-party would read like a shrieking caricature. The anecdote reigned supreme.
From Mrs. Craddock (set in the late 19th century) by W Somerset Maugham
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From Mrs. Craddock (set in the late 19th century) by W Somerset Maugham
What does the underlined sentence imply?