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Comment by marginalia_nu

If you write an autobiography, the character bearing your name in the book isn't you. It's a character in a book, while you are a human being.

You can never shake hands with a fictional character. You can create another fictional character that shakes the hand of the first fictional character, but the you that writes can not shake hands with the character you wrote bearing your name. These are entities from separate ontological categories that can never meet as equals.

The one pushing cannot be the thing getting pushed.

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