The Summary
Is that a lie?
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The Summary
Your friend can talk about a famous novel for twenty minutes. The plot, the ending, why the second half is weaker, the line everyone quotes. They've read three reviews and a long summary. They have never opened the book. At a dinner, someone asks if they've read it and they say yes.
Is that a lie?
Then ask
- Where's the cutoff? Half the book? The first chapter and the ending?
- Is there something you talk about like this?
- What does reading it give you that they don't have?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.