well, will, that just depends now doesn't it?
i mean, the distinction operates inside the larger one that separates the tedious memoir from the maybe not-tedious memoir.
this:
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Today, I awoke slowly. I'd programmed Nash Bridges to come on at 7:00AM because it was a lot less obtrusive than an alarm. Sometimes it's nice to hear a Hemi 'Cuda first thing.
I did my stretches and pushups, getting my blood flowing and preparing me for the day. I've often found that, while I prefer to exercise in the evening, coffee falls short of physical activity in order to provide one with enough life to last until breakfast is being digested.
Ah, breakfast. Toast made from organic whole wheat bread that I bought from a local bakery with fresh orange juice and a hard boiled egg filled my belly and gave me that indescribable satisfaction; "ahhh".
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may be true, but it's tedious.
while this:
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I awoke to having an anti-Nazi wolf lick my face. I'd been living with the wolves for some time, along my 1900 mile walk. Oh, and I'm Jewish. I wish I had toast.
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has potential. i prefer it to "call me ishmael" at any rate.
if this kept going in a cool way, i'd be far more into it than the "true" memoir, wouldn't you?
i mean, who would you rather hang around with?
both are autobiographical fictions about this character called "I" and one "I" is kinda interesting. the other watches too much tv.
way too much tv.
and both are equally true depending on how you chose to look at what a memoir is or does.
there are choices, comrades: you don't have to copy all the conventions of a form just because they exist. and the conventions are just conventions.