something there about the fact that after eleanor 209 says "the time of storytelling is over" there are a number of characters that actually start explicitly committing to truthfulness. eleanor herself tells rogers she wants her word to mean something. flint has no more lies left in him. max tells anne she does not wish to lie to her anymore. anne refuses to get revenge on max and to fabricate a lie for herself to live with it. rogers even tells eleanor "if you lie you die". it's almost as if the netting of the narrative, that initially hanged loose around the characters and allowed them to negotiate certain movements by fabricating their own reality, started getting progressively tighter. as the fixed ending crystallised by history and treasure island approaches, less and less paths that could fulfill it remain available, until gradually the only stories that can be told are the ones that go along with it. in this sense, it's curious enough that silver maintains the ability for them. but after all, the most famous story about him is the one that immortalises him forever as a liar. so yeah.