Element of Surprise
is a new programme from the ZBs, but a close follower in the footsteps of Famous Frauds, Surprise Endings, Believe It Or Not and those other attempts to wear away by constant dripping that capacity for surprise which a pre-radio, pre-digest generation was permitted to indulge in peace through the pages of fiction. But our generation, brought up on Ripley and that feature programme which is, we are assured, a product of careful research, would be surprised indeed if life did not exhibit.the startling qualities of old-time fiction. This explains, perhaps, our modern tendency to exclude the element of surprise from our stories and novels, to eschew denouement, and to laud those writers whose work reflects most nearly the sort of thing we thought life was before we knew how much stranger it is than fiction, GER THAN FICTION
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 10
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142Element of Surprise New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 10
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