(no subject)
Apr. 4th, 2010 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencer"Excuse me, sir. Have you just bought that book?"
"Um, yes, here's the receipt..."
"No no, sir, that's all right. We just wondered if you were aware that it's a work of fiction?"
"Well, er, yes, it says 'novel' on the cover..."
"Not a word of truth in it, sir, trust us."
"Well..."
"Absolute rubbish from start to finish. We have evidence."
"Really?"
"If you wouldn't mind stepping this way, sir, we can show you documentation that proves the work to be complete balderdash."
"Well, I actually didn't think--"
"We have a short documentary, sir, if you wouldn't mind just sitting here. Narrated by a likeable celebrity."
"Do you indeed."
"Experts from around the world unanimously concur, sir, that this book is as far from being factually accurate as it is possible to get in a finite but expanding universe."
"Look, why--"
"The author, of course, maintains that his story is based upon fact, but as you will see, sir, we have spent a great deal of money and gone to considerable effort to refute any such claim."
"Yes, I see, and I can't help wondering--"
"No need to thank us, sir. This is a service we are happy to perform."
"Only this has never actually happened with any other novel I've bought--"
"Now if you wouldn't mind just filling in this short questionnaire, sir. Just to show that you have fully taken on board that the work in question is a farrago of mendacious tarradiddles, and in short, not true in the slightest. Yes, sir, just sign there and there, please."
"All right."
"Do pop back next week, sir, when we shall be going to great lengths to prove once again that the Shroud of Turin cannot possibly be authentic, that the Biblical story of Jesus is not historically accurate, that the late President Kennedy was assassinated by a solitary lunatic, and that there is strong evidence for the presence of ursine excrement in arboreal areas."
"Well, thank you. You've certainly made me think."
"We can ask for no higher accolade, sir. Good day to you."
"Um, yes, here's the receipt..."
"No no, sir, that's all right. We just wondered if you were aware that it's a work of fiction?"
"Well, er, yes, it says 'novel' on the cover..."
"Not a word of truth in it, sir, trust us."
"Well..."
"Absolute rubbish from start to finish. We have evidence."
"Really?"
"If you wouldn't mind stepping this way, sir, we can show you documentation that proves the work to be complete balderdash."
"Well, I actually didn't think--"
"We have a short documentary, sir, if you wouldn't mind just sitting here. Narrated by a likeable celebrity."
"Do you indeed."
"Experts from around the world unanimously concur, sir, that this book is as far from being factually accurate as it is possible to get in a finite but expanding universe."
"Look, why--"
"The author, of course, maintains that his story is based upon fact, but as you will see, sir, we have spent a great deal of money and gone to considerable effort to refute any such claim."
"Yes, I see, and I can't help wondering--"
"No need to thank us, sir. This is a service we are happy to perform."
"Only this has never actually happened with any other novel I've bought--"
"Now if you wouldn't mind just filling in this short questionnaire, sir. Just to show that you have fully taken on board that the work in question is a farrago of mendacious tarradiddles, and in short, not true in the slightest. Yes, sir, just sign there and there, please."
"All right."
"Do pop back next week, sir, when we shall be going to great lengths to prove once again that the Shroud of Turin cannot possibly be authentic, that the Biblical story of Jesus is not historically accurate, that the late President Kennedy was assassinated by a solitary lunatic, and that there is strong evidence for the presence of ursine excrement in arboreal areas."
"Well, thank you. You've certainly made me think."
"We can ask for no higher accolade, sir. Good day to you."
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Oh but
Date: 2010-04-04 11:00 am (UTC)I would be very surprised to find any ursine excrement in my local arboreal areas.
Which of course forces one to doubt all these statements.
Re: Oh but
Date: 2010-04-04 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 11:39 am (UTC)I haven't read it, but I've seen the film and enjoyed that. Whether any of the conspiracy stuff is true or not is a matter of supreme indifference to me; there are more than enough real and relevant nastinesses in life. The amount of effort that gets put into debunking this one book, though, as opposed to any other conspiracy-theory novel in the world, of which there are many, does give one pause to think. Nobody ever tried to prove Illuminatus! wasn't true.
no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-05 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-05 06:37 pm (UTC)