That's a good question. Some writers ask a different one instead. How real am I, as in, how real is the writer? Maybe the writer isn't the God of his universe. Maybe instead, he's more like the pale, skinny man in Waterworld, namely the one in the rowboat floating inside the oil tanker.
_________________ "Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them. Cut them out, to the very core, just as cancers are..." - Ragnar Redbeard, "Might is Right" (1890).
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