In a sort of actual parallel to this, Richard Adams claimed there was no political allegory in Watership Down, and just a story he told to his daughters.
One of the best cases for death of the author I’ve ever seen (with Bradbury’s comments about Fahrenheit 451 being a close second).
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
this is the sort of shit we’ll be seeing from now on, except people will think it’s true, because anyone who calls it fake will be flagged as “troublemaker”
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
We will think it’s true or not depending on who we are talking to. It’s called doublethink and actually a good an honest way of interacting with people
sukhmel@programming.dev 1 year ago
But if it’s on Truth Social then it’s certified true