Winn [allegedly] took tens of thousands from a former employer, and … lied about being made homeless and about the circumstances under which the couple’s house was repossessed in the memoir [The Salt Path]. [An investigation] also cast doubt over the legitimacy of [Winn’s husband’s terminal] diagnosis.
Und so weiter. How eager we are, again and again and again, to buy what a moment’s serious thought would reveal as almost certainly incredible hard luck stories. The more extreme, the more incredible, the more gullible we. Homeless! Half dead! Treated like shit by strangers! Bring it on!
We never learn. The imposters are exposed, and we move on to the next patently impossible memoir.
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In this, as in so many things, our model is Lady Bracknell:
Now produce your explanation, and pray make it improbable.
July 8th, 2025 at 7:04PM
That would be, ‘und so weiter’.
July 8th, 2025 at 8:10PM
Yikes. Right you are. Thanks.