13th April 2006, 12:55 PM
And if it was presented as a fictional exxageration of a true story, that would be fine, but he presented it as the truth. Are you suggesting that believing a lie is going to somehow help people deal with reality? Why can't they get whatever lesson the book has to teach if they realize parts of it are fictional?
"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)