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yo, TSG really fucked this dude up!
Personally, Ive never read the book, but I would say it is at least possible for what it to contain emotional truth, even if all the events are not literally true. The nature of addiction and pain can be the same, whether or not you really run over a cop or have a tooth pulled with no pain killers... maybe some of it is just intended to be allegories for the things he felt, fantasies that his drug induced state made seem real, his self hatrid demanding some kind of rationale... maybe he just wished his face was covered with the scars to show what he had been though, so he invented some of them.
As for people suing him and stuff, I dont see either the point, or that there is much of a case. Novels are not written under oath, whether to a degree he painted fiction as non-fiction... the story is the same as it was before, it says the same words.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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