How is まるで、たった今確定した事実を **いう** かのように semantically different from
まるで、たった今確定した事実を **いってる** かのように?

Full context:

> 日も落ちかけた頃、ヒメノはふいに立ち上がり、スカートの汚れを手で払って、まっすぐ正面を見据えたままいった。 「私たちは将来、とっても偉くなるんだよ」
> 彼女だけが持つ、あの透き通った声で。 まるで、たった今確定した事実をいうかのように。 「......将来って、どれくらい先の話？」と俺は訊きかえした。
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What are the differences between these sentences?
言ってる is an informal and colloquial version of 言っている, and it sounds fairly out-
of-place if used in a solemn narrative part of a novel. So let's compare the
following two phrases instead:

  1. たった今確定した事実を **言う** かのように
  2. たった今確定した事実を **言っている** かのように

言っている can only refer to something that has already been said, so when this
phrase refers to something yet to be said (i.e., "as if she is going to say"),
言うかのように is the only option. In your case, however, the two phrases are
interchangeable because they refer to something that was just said. Maybe
言うかのように might sound slightly more literary (don't ask me why), but the
difference is minimal.
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いうかのように and いって（い）るかのように are practically interchangeable in this context.

I feel a slightest nuance in focus, though. The version with the dictionary
form sounds like it is referring to the speaker’s state of mind that led to
her saying what she said ( _”as if to say …”_ ), whereas the version with the
continuous form describes how she was saying it when she was actually saying
it ( _”as if she was saying …”_ ).

The difference is very subtle.
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