Significantly, later research has accused both Bill Murray and Paddy L-F of embellishing or simply making up some of their memories. I did have my doubts about the encounter with the two girls (Austrian princesses or something like that) in Time of Gifts. Dialogue in WH Murray has surely been improved and tidied in memory (She is majestic... but she is not to be tampered with, Liathach in Undiscovered Scotland). I do the same in narrative accounts, tidying up Reality for literary effect, it's a matter of conscience how far one may take that.
Yes, I’ve definitely tidied up bits of dialogue in the more memoir-ish articles I’ve written. And of course most characters in fiction are that bit more articulate than they probably would be in real life.
Significantly, later research has accused both Bill Murray and Paddy L-F of embellishing or simply making up some of their memories. I did have my doubts about the encounter with the two girls (Austrian princesses or something like that) in Time of Gifts. Dialogue in WH Murray has surely been improved and tidied in memory (She is majestic... but she is not to be tampered with, Liathach in Undiscovered Scotland). I do the same in narrative accounts, tidying up Reality for literary effect, it's a matter of conscience how far one may take that.
Yes, I’ve definitely tidied up bits of dialogue in the more memoir-ish articles I’ve written. And of course most characters in fiction are that bit more articulate than they probably would be in real life.