Only in the sense that all words, stories, lines of reasonings, economies and concepts of individual things are "purely a fiction."  Or are you suggesting that, for example, books contain no information?  They are only tree pulp and toner, after all…

From: <Costello>, "Roger L." <costello@m...>
Date: Friday, 12 June 2015 18:35
To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
Subject: What is text?

The notion that there are words or sentences or poetry in the computer is purely a fiction.

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