[MikeBVaughn]

> Sometimes the authors themselves invite and regale in this kind of festive chicanery. Sometimes not. But this sort of thing - far more than useful or warranted - does exist.

Why does art and the attempts at interpretation thereof have to be useful or warranted? Festive chicanery sounds delightful to me. I would like more of that in my life, please.

> In other words some works of writing often fiction but not necessarily are just elaborate exercises in getting away with balderdash.

> In other words far too many mediocre works of the past still get top billing, than they rightly deserve largely because no one called out their bullshit.

> HN should buck this trend and not join in adulation.

Do you have some concrete examples of works that fit these claims?