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Lucian’s Allusive Journey 117<br />
into A True Story’s truly fictive narrative. Through the use of allusion and satire,<br />
Lucian puts his reader’s intellect “into more alert condition for the labour which<br />
is to follow” (I.1): questioning and criticizing the truths deduced from literature.<br />
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