Post by Radrook Admin on Jul 19, 2022 19:39:53 GMT -5
My Response to an Insult:
After reading my short story, "Your Wish is my What?" A certain member of ichess responded in the following manner.
That was the rude reaction of someone who read my story concerning a genie who victimizes someone and said that the person who is narrating the story, me, doesn't sound like a 76-year-old man. Now, I could have assumed that this person is striving to goad me into frustration, since surely he must know that such a response is rude and insulting. But then I tried to see if some other reason might be involved, and I arrived at the following possibilities.
Do you notice that this person seems to assume that the fictitious character that I depicted in the story is actually me? Well, there is no other explanation for it. Otherwise, if indeed he is confused, then why is he confused?
I concluded such a profoundly ignorant opinion, if indeed sincere, can be induced by ignorance concerning what the creative writing process entails in the fiction genre where an author must assume different personalities as he creates different characters for his story.
I also considered the possibility of cultural brainwashing leading persons to believe their cultural idiosyncrasies universal.
Or perhaps a mental handicap of some sort might be the cause.
Yet another possibility, and perhaps the most likely, is a pathological sadistic frustrating others.
Who knows what inspired that idiocy and who really cares?
In any case, I responded in the following way.
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>I didn't see the photo before. But yeah, it seems to be some sort of chap in 60s like my uncle.
>But way of your speaking isn't like an old man. That's why I was confused!
>But way of your speaking isn't like an old man. That's why I was confused!
Do you notice that this person seems to assume that the fictitious character that I depicted in the story is actually me? Well, there is no other explanation for it. Otherwise, if indeed he is confused, then why is he confused?
I concluded such a profoundly ignorant opinion, if indeed sincere, can be induced by ignorance concerning what the creative writing process entails in the fiction genre where an author must assume different personalities as he creates different characters for his story.
I also considered the possibility of cultural brainwashing leading persons to believe their cultural idiosyncrasies universal.
Or perhaps a mental handicap of some sort might be the cause.
Yet another possibility, and perhaps the most likely, is a pathological sadistic frustrating others.
Who knows what inspired that idiocy and who really cares?
In any case, I responded in the following way.
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Perhaps its your Indian culture? In the United States and in Europe, persons of advanced age speak in many diverse ways according to education and personality.
Also, it is common knowledge that creative writing requires changes of style in order to portray different fictional personalities. In short, you are making the infantile mistake of identifying me with the fictional person I depict in the story instead of understanding that fiction writers assume different personalities just as actors do.
That's tantamount to seeing the horror film, The Shining, and moronically concluding that Jack Nicholson is really the way he acted in that film. It would take a certain special type of density to reach such an unjustifiable conclusion.
IMHO.
BTW I consider this conversation over.
Also, it is common knowledge that creative writing requires changes of style in order to portray different fictional personalities. In short, you are making the infantile mistake of identifying me with the fictional person I depict in the story instead of understanding that fiction writers assume different personalities just as actors do.
That's tantamount to seeing the horror film, The Shining, and moronically concluding that Jack Nicholson is really the way he acted in that film. It would take a certain special type of density to reach such an unjustifiable conclusion.
IMHO.
BTW I consider this conversation over.