Corrected: The Non-Philosophy of "As If" (US Literature, 2020)

[j***@gmail.com]

Hello.


Even if the cultivation of letters is considered an admirable goal by the "select", many people do not understand how to properly talk about US literature and other books. I will on this day attempt to explain my understanding of it. My name is Jeffrey Rubard and I am the author of tbe books published under the pen names "Jeffrey Lent", "John Wray", "Jamie Ford" and some others.


Or am I?


Those aren't my legal name (and "Jamie Ford" at least puports to be an Asian-American, though that culture in truth permits more "fanboys" than some may understand). Still, if they're not CG texts or "collectively authored", some one person wrote them. Do the author photographs look like me? They pretty much do. Could I provide at least purported "proofs of art" demonstrating hidden features of the text plausibly known to the author?


I could.


And yet, you still wouldn't *know* I wrote them. However, that kind of "conjecture and surmise" is normal for American letters. Could it reLly be proven that "Mark Twain" was Samuel Clemens? Not really, and yet it was and is reasonably believed to be so. That sort of "as if" reasoning is the right way to think about works of history and social science, too, and it's not new: "Robert W. Merry" wouldn't have it another way.


Jeffrey Rubard

[j***@gmail.com]

5/2: The rules for authors "reputed og other nations" are different. For example, if the Japanese pen-namr Kojin Karatani, the Hungarian pen-name Laszlo Kraznahorkai, and the Canadian pen-name Wayne Johnston really were composites of different authors a la the mystery writer "Ellery Queen" one might not, under *any* conditions, be able to parse the details of the works' composition according to the "rules of literary production" in those countries.

However, for US authors the ability to conjecture about them and their works is nearly unlimited. Was "Joseph Hergesheimer" a nom de plume for H.L. Mencken? I have read almost everything Mencken ever wrote and *none* of the Hergeshimer novels, but I have some idea it might be so and am within my rights in saying so.

[Steve Hayes]

On Fri, 1 May 2020 15:07:01 -0700 (PDT), ***@gmail.com wrote:

Hello.


Even if the cultivation of letters is considered an admirable goal by
the "select", many people do not understand how to properly talk about
US literature and other books. I will on this day attempt to explain
my understanding of it. My name is Jeffrey Rubard and I am the author
of tbe books published under the pen names "Jeffrey Lent", "John
Wray", "Jamie Ford" and some others.


Or am I?


Those aren't my legal name (and "Jamie Ford" at least puports to be an
Asian-American, though that culture in truth permits more "fanboys"
than some may understand). Still, if they're not CG texts or
"collectively authored", some one person wrote them. Do the author
photographs look like me? They pretty much do. Could I provide at
least purported "proofs of art" demonstrating hidden features of the
text plausibly known to the author?


I could.


And yet, you still wouldn't *know* I wrote them. However, that kind of
"conjecture and surmise" is normal for American letters. Could it
reLly be proven that "Mark Twain" was Samuel Clemens? Not really, and
yet it was and is reasonably believed to be so. That sort of "as if"
reasoning is the right way to think about works of history and social
science, too, and it's not new: "Robert W. Merry" wouldn't have it
another way.


Jeffrey Rubard

[Jeffrey Rubard]

Post by j***@gmail.com
Hello.
Even if the cultivation of letters is considered an admirable goal by
the "select", many people do not understand how to properly talk about
US literature and other books. I will on this day attempt to explain
my understanding of it. My name is Jeffrey Rubard and I am the author
of tbe books published under the pen names "Jeffrey Lent", "John
Wray", "Jamie Ford" and some others.
Or am I?
Those aren't my legal name (and "Jamie Ford" at least puports to be an
Asian-American, though that culture in truth permits more "fanboys"
than some may understand). Still, if they're not CG texts or
"collectively authored", some one person wrote them. Do the author
photographs look like me? They pretty much do. Could I provide at
least purported "proofs of art" demonstrating hidden features of the
text plausibly known to the author?
I could.
And yet, you still wouldn't *know* I wrote them. However, that kind of
"conjecture and surmise" is normal for American letters. Could it
reLly be proven that "Mark Twain" was Samuel Clemens? Not really, and
yet it was and is reasonably believed to be so. That sort of "as if"
reasoning is the right way to think about works of history and social
science, too, and it's not new: "Robert W. Merry" wouldn't have it
another way.
Jeffrey Rubard

You're not adding here, Steve.