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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Im not saying what you OR Severian are saying, what i said was that his sister shouldn't be assumed to speak on his behalf about his own experiences. Her experience of her parents may just have been different from her brother's

she wasn't talking about lou's subjective experiences though-- she was talking first-person about family history. and that is what's i like about what she wrote.

it's not merrill vs. lou-- it's merrill vs. the (for-profit) biographers (mostly).

eta: in the end she says "the stories he tells seem like total fantasy to me". okay. there's that. who knows? maybe he was being 100% truthful maybe he was creating his own legend.