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i spent a lot of time talking about how i couldn't trust a damn thing hemingway wrote due to him offing himself (if i write ten books on how to fix a motorcycle and then i reduce your motorcycle to a smoking pile of rubble when i work on it. you should probably take my books with a grain of salt

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wow....well said.... i still don't agree. if you're effectively creating parables for yourself to live by then it should be stated as such....otherwise you are putting out untested standards, which is dangerous. an example is some kid who just got into drag racing telling his younger brother that he got his car up too 100 mph when in fact the car lost some amount of handling at 90mph...well when that younger brother gets into that car he'll assume that 100mph is a given and will try to push it past that, and won't be expecting anything between 90 and 100, which is where his brother had all the problems.

this is just an example of a old fashioned fish tale potentially turning dangerous. i think writing out whole outlooks and lifestyles that you haven't lived and can't completely apply to yourself....but presenting yourself as though you are, is particularly dangerous. my favorite example of this is ayn rand, who died pretty miserably and yet i keep seeing folk bang their head against the rock of her twisted selfish logic...

sorry, you just caught the brunt of the first cup of coffee stream of consciousness this and that.

i do agree with what you've stated. i just think it needs the distance of fiction to allow people to discover how close they can come on their own terms.