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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Bossk
It's not a true story. The book, which focuses on struggling writers a la an earlier explanation of mine in this thread, is broken into chapters. Each chapter starts with a few pages that describe the action inside the "writer's retreat" and what is happening to our characters. Then the chapter has a poem written about one of the characters in the retreat. This is followed by a short story written by that same focal character. Save for the two people who run the retreat, every character is known only by a nickname. The character in this short story is known to readers only as "Saint Gut-Free" and for good reason.

But the author claimed that the carrot story was inspired in a real life event that happened with a friend he met in college, and that he heard about the swiming pool story, that it actually happened to someone.

Maybe so on the carrot. Who knows? As for the swimming pool... on the Web we "hear" all kinds of stories that people claim are "true." Until I read the actual news report, I'm banking on its falsehood. I don't know how a human being can survive without their intestines. So much nutrient processing occurs there. Without them, food would just pass through and not do anything. Even vitamin supplements would do nothing as they wouldn't stay in your system long enough to have any effect. You would be severely malnourished, dehydrated, etc. You wouldn't be able to live on our own as you would need to be hooked up to a constant IV drip. Just my take.