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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
You were perfectly clear, Harry, and I wasn't responding to your post but to Mike's.
But, seriously: people who read fiction expecting historical fact should get a dictionary.
The real problem is of course that proper, "factual" history is also largely fiction.
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Exactly. Just look at how biased reporting is these days--take for instance the Clinton "health" stories out there. Twenty years from now, someone will be trying to piece together a four paragraph "history" with a mention and will have all kinds of fodder to use or discard. I'm pretty sure lies, misdirections and rumors have always existed whether they were whispered in an alleyway or put on the internet. "Truth" is so easily distorted. Some history is accurate. Some is just a guess.
Personally, I thought the werewolf comment was hilarious.