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suspension of disbelief
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But suspend disbelief for a second and consider the possibilities:
The wall texts and catalogue do not always tell us, unless we are meant to suspend disbelief and give some credit to occult concepts like "vital fluid" and ectoplasm.
Storytelling is successful, Booker notes, if the listener or reader can connect with the story immediately; readers will suspend disbelief as long as the story is true at an unconscious level--a kind of preprogrammed assent.
 
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