A Shroud for Laertes

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>My warning to myself is also a warning to the reader (if there be one)]. Every story ought to be considered first as a story for this very reason. Whether one calls it a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>story</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> a novel a memoir even an affidavit it is a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>whole</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> before it is true false or a mixture of both. But how can I claim that I want to be accurate and yet say that the story is fiction? Am I pretending to accuracy while writing a false story? Or may I claim that the story is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>psychologically</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> accurate? Or are all accounts of a life true and false at the same time? I will consider that as I read this story I may see the true (as I perceived it) and the false (as I perceive it now) and true and false might meet someday and greet each other in wary friendship.</span></p>