@HyenaDandy

1 year ago

As someone who has been/known ghostwriters, your job as a ghostwriter is not to write a book to make your subject look good. It's effectively to approach the situation as if you are that person, and you are writing what they would write, if they had the time to write it. So either Harry wrote that himself, or (more likely) he said it in an interview, and made it clear that stuff like that was going in. Honestly (not to get all British media, just reading it as an artwork) the book seems to sort of enjoy airing out the dirty laundry, and not for anyone as much as Harry himself. He comes off like someone who... Well, frankly, like someone who spent a long time under pressure to be/look/act 'Respectable,' and is not only enjoying the opportunity to not be that, but is somewhat revelling in the fact that he knows this is going to piss off all the people who put that pressure on him. So he's thinking of all the embarassing anecdotes he can, because he knows that that whole time they were expecting him to be good, and speculating weird things, this is what he was up to. Like, basically saying "You know what? You remember all those weird things you said I was doing? Yeah, not only were you right, it was WAY worse? Oh, you thought my tapping a folder on my leg was disrespectful? How about I talk about how the smell of a certain lotion reminded me of my mother and then immediately talk about slapping that lotion on my dick? How does that one work?" I mean I can't speculate on how much is true, what he REALLY was thinking,e tc. All I can say is that, from an artistic perspective, the book really revels in that sort of thing.

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