1st February 2006, 12:50 PM
And I agree lazy, as a work of fiction it likely is a great story. I'm not debating that. I'm saying that despite the fact that a lot of people are desceptive when making up karp in autobiographies, it doesn't make it right. People DO need to be trained to be more skeptical, this is true, but this is no real excuse. Make it clear in the book what you said about the nature of the fiction and that SHOULD be enough.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)