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I notice that his name is Bert at the start of the article and Joe at the end. If there were any doubt about whether the story is real or made up, I think that
by gjm11 14y ago
I notice that his name is Bert at the start of the article and Joe at the end. If there were any doubt about whether the story is real or made up, I think that clinches it; people very seldom forget their own names.
- scrumper 14y agoMore likely bad editing. Joe was his roommate and eventual boss. It's only once near the end that his aunt calls him Joe.
- jrochkind1 14y agoyeah, bad editing, but if it weren't fiction, would the author have mis-stated his own name in his first draft?
- __--__ 14y agoIf he had decided to use a different name so he could publish anonymously, sure.
- moconnor 14y agoIf it were real, names would have been changed to anonymize it. No search replace in those days, so it's an easy way for such a mistake to creep in. I still suspect it's a fictional or largely fictional piece though.
- sopooneo 14y agoOr, stretching, Bert is Tyler Durden.