Tricky technical question there.
Did Charles Dickens "forge" David Copperfield because he chose to write it in the first person?
We simply cannot know the intent of an ancient author. There was a 4th century "Acts of Pilate." Was this a forgery? Modern scholars agree that it is but this assumes an intent to defraud. We simply do not know if the author said "I'll write this piece of shit and pass it off as real" or, if he said, "if Pilate had written a report, what might he have said?" That subsequent purveyors of xtian bullshit tried to portray it as real does not reflect on the original author's motives but their own or their ignorance as in the case of the Shroud of Turin.
This began its existence as a rather gaudy exhibit at a Passion Play in medieval France. Centuries later, after it had faded to virtually nothing it got its picture taken and some jackass looked at the negative and said "THERE'S JESUS!" This does not reflect on the original artist and only shows that the photographer was a moron.
Did Charles Dickens "forge" David Copperfield because he chose to write it in the first person?
Quote: CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
We simply cannot know the intent of an ancient author. There was a 4th century "Acts of Pilate." Was this a forgery? Modern scholars agree that it is but this assumes an intent to defraud. We simply do not know if the author said "I'll write this piece of shit and pass it off as real" or, if he said, "if Pilate had written a report, what might he have said?" That subsequent purveyors of xtian bullshit tried to portray it as real does not reflect on the original author's motives but their own or their ignorance as in the case of the Shroud of Turin.
This began its existence as a rather gaudy exhibit at a Passion Play in medieval France. Centuries later, after it had faded to virtually nothing it got its picture taken and some jackass looked at the negative and said "THERE'S JESUS!" This does not reflect on the original artist and only shows that the photographer was a moron.
