11-24-2011, 12:00 AM
Diamond Unicorn wrote:It would make a difference...
If the book is fiction then Carlos lied claiming it was real, and who wants to 'believe' such books?
I mean Star Wars and Jedi are awesome cool and inspiring but we know the movies and books are fiction and the producers did not try to pass them off as being real life events...
Seriously if you found out truly that Castaneda lied about everything and there was no 'don Juan', you would not look at 'Nagualism' quite in the same way...
Just as the ploy of a dim witted student works as a literary device to cause the "teacher" to explain everything in detail, perhaps the ploy of insinuating the books were not fiction was a marketing tool?
If the book is fiction then Carlos lied claiming it was real, and who wants to 'believe' such books?
I mean Star Wars and Jedi are awesome cool and inspiring but we know the movies and books are fiction and the producers did not try to pass them off as being real life events...
Seriously if you found out truly that Castaneda lied about everything and there was no 'don Juan', you would not look at 'Nagualism' quite in the same way...
Just as the ploy of a dim witted student works as a literary device to cause the "teacher" to explain everything in detail, perhaps the ploy of insinuating the books were not fiction was a marketing tool?