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at a time, a paragraph at a time, or even a morpheme at a time. The point here is that they do
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2 Mieke Bal defines the fabula as "a series of logically and chronologically related events
that are caused or experienced by actors." Mieke Bal, Narratology:. Introduction to the Theory of
Narrative (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985), 5. A "fabula" then is the collection of events, actors,
and experiences that a "story" represents. Whereas stories may involve such devices as gaps in
the timeline, flashbacks, and even the excision of unimportant details, fabulas contain all of these
things. They are, essentially, the phenomena that are storied. In the frontmatter to Narratology,
Bal clarifies this differentiation with a "distinction between the text (the linguistic structure and
the different speakers involved), the story (the arrangement of the content in a specific manner),
and the fabula (the structure of the fictitious or 'real' content)."
3 In Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard says "Simulation is no longer that of a
territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without
origin or reality: a hyperreal." Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans., Sheila Faria
Glaser (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994), 1. Andrew M. Butler clarifies the idea in
"Postmodernism and Science Fiction": "Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum is that the history
of images means that the copy is becoming more desirable. Images are tied in with notions of
exchange-one image is exchanged for an idea-and in, say, the history of economics it has
become better to exchange goods for money rather than objects. In the postworld war the image
has become everything, especially the copy that has no original; the model has replaced the
actual, the opinion poll has become more important than the election. Everyday life has become
more and more inauthentic-monetary value has come down to noughts and ones in a computer.81
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