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    LJX: Full Disclosure

    So, there are still two more posts left to be seen in the LJX story. I've got some tricks up my sleeves for those, and I'll explain them in the end, but for now, I'd like to take a short pause and give you a sight of the true complexity of the story so far, with respect to its truthfulness.

    I'm sure you realize by now if you've been reading along that this is more of a psychological project than a literary one, so in that vein, I'd like to invite you to take a deeper look into what's going on.

    I've taken the first 5 posts and compiled a single PDF which is color-coded to show 3 attributes on two scales. Essentially, this shows line by line which parts of the story have been either true, false, dramatized. I've split them up into 'thoughts/opinions' and 'events' so you know when a falsified scene reflects true beliefs of mine or when a true event has been dramatized or has an non-real reaction from me for effect.

    Of course, without asking me a ton of questions, this isn't going to really allow you to 'make sense' of the story. What it will allow you to do is see how quickly I have been shifting between fantasy and reality, and the blurring effect it tends to have. I'll talk more about that when I finally wrap the project up and explain the motivation behind it.

    Again, I hope this is fun or at least interesting for you. Since it's got a scheduled end time now, if you've been mostly ignoring my blog for the last week because of it, you'll be able to take me off the blacklist soon.

    Please let me know if you have any thoughts about what you've seen so far, or suggestions for the final parts of the project.

    NOTE: Please notice there is no fiction tag on this post. This is real, kids... no meta-meta-meta-fiction here.

    • 1 February 2008
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    Hello, my name is Gregory Brown. I am the founder of Mendicant University, a free online school for software developers.

    I am passionate about community service, education, and the free software movement. If you're interested in getting to know me a bit better, feel free to send me an email: gregory.t.brown@gmail.com

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