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The You who is I needs therapy, but the I who is You does not.

Yea, then show don't tell. A few wee stories to round it out and keep folks hooked.

I would say that as an unreliable narrator, folks will distrust overt messages or facts. So yea, lie all you like, it won't matter too much. But keep the theme truthful.

Zum Beispiel - If the theme is 'love unites us' then the narrator could say '10,000 couples kill each other every year.' All good, and instantly distrusted.

But in the context of the theme, he'd be speaking to, for instance, a family of woodland critters. These, though from different species and levels of the food chain, united to preserve the life of a lost puppy - who had touched all their hearts.

So yea, overt versus implied. Mine that implied meaning, friend, and draw forth gold.

I'm so pleased for you, None. 

I still do that sometimes with (younger) friends at German universities.

I remember when 4000 words seemed like a lot.

*cries in 15000 word chapters*

Happy Birthday, your gift was the forum coming back!

The best birthday gift I've had 

I mean, if we're being serious, then yes. Though I'd also add that Hippocrates likely didn't write it, and that an evocation of the gods was pretty common in... pretty much everything, but especially oaths.

My understanding is that Ancient Greece evoked gods in active healing processes. Entering a dream of healing, for instance, to determine what Asclepius desired your healing journey to be.

Hippocrates focused on empirical evidence to arrive at a treatment methodology. Granted, his methodology was flawed and overly-fixated on diet as causing disease. But nevertheless, it removed interpretative dream-visions and divine intervention from the equation.