Are you suggesting the sixes carried him in his journey and not the sevens??? ha!

i do find the bastardizing of events interesting. my children tell me i live a hyperbolic life and although my recounts of occurrences are colorful, it's not exactly what occurred.

Currently I'm writing historic fiction and it's in that vein. The perception of the masses, or the story that traveled from one's eyes to another's ears isn't necessarily the truth. A previous tale that would not let me rest (and honestly still talks to me) is speculative fiction suggesting a far-out theory is truth and what others believe to be the norm is really society turning a blind eye to circumstances presenting themselves plainly.

I can see now, in reflection over the past six months, that which drives me in my writing is challenging perception. It's an exploration of truth and reception of the story. Does that make sense?

@Lillyfield41 " It's an exploration of truth and reception of the story. Does that make sense?"
... not the reception part? Can you elaborate ?

@hippydog if i give something that you don't take, i'm just speaking gibberish. if i string words together to weave a story and you draw it in, you have received it. on a mass scale, there is a perception that is carried to others who must receive it to pass it on to others.

I won't use this head story as an example because i have not looked into St. Dennis yet. But the fish and bread story of jesus on the beach... he is said to have fed all who came to listen to him with five fish and two loaves of bread. Now, being an inquisitive (and argumentative) christian in my younger days, i will give the bible thumpers a mass gathering on the beach to whom he was preaching. Assume if you will, that one picnic basket with a couple of fish and loaves of bread was opened. If others had brought food and shared it - think music festival, where people just commune and share their stuff - if others opened their baskets, and he spoke for - however long the narcissist needed to speak - while everyone ate, drank, and was merry, it is reasonable that the first who opened their picnic started a rumor that the food became something more than it was. - and then one tells another who tells another - until five re-tellings later has this cat doing something completely supernatural and reproducing bread and fish on the spot from a bottomless picnic basket.

So, reception. If the person hearing about this magic put a stop to it at telling one, the perception of the story teller would be different and the reception from the masses would not occur. I have for - oh my gosh, my daughter is 20 years old and i began exploring this idea when she was born - i have for 20 years, lumped reception along with perception because I believe they go hand in hand although they are different concepts - two sides of the same coin, or the same side of two coins???

@Lillyfield41 interesting!
Like "reception " is the mass "perception"?

@hippydog yes.