Liar’s Path, notes on truth, working truths, and deception
liars and dupes: Deception and working truth (6)
Facebook vs. the public toilet Broadcasting one's impassioned message was harder back in the old days. For most of us, the public restroom was enough. One found a pen, composed an impassioned plea, then sat with trousers at ankles, and scrawled on the wall. Further...
Nobel Lies: Deception and working truth (5)
Noble lie, big lie and the 'cause' P.T. Barnum, were he our contemporary, might now say, There's a true believer born every minute. Nice people these true believers, our cousins, brothers, friends (plus that one gazing back at you from the mirror), with whom you...
Believers and fools: Deception and working truth (4)
Believers and fools, liars and dupes The Executioner's Son It is 1960. Two brothers, Russian Jews, meet in an abandoned warehouse in the Baumanskaya District of Moscow. It had been two decades since they had last seen one another. Blood under the bridge, my Irish...
Winter to Spring, Northern Wisconsin
March 14, 2015 Over the last several days the temperature has risen from -30F to +60F yesterday (well, +56F). Nice. The snow this winter, three feet deep in parts of the tamarack plantation protected from wind, has melted to slush and water. I had cut trails...
Winter night
The Four Seasons Winter The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the moon's reflected light. Just above the SW horizon Mercury and Venus lie close. The nights have been clear and thus...
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Moscow: Deception and working truth [3]
Deception in Moscow, 1961 The 'middle morass' of The Executioner's Son, that miserable time when, between the sparkling first scenes and a dramatic conclusion, you sit in that writing swamp struggling to "The End." A 1900 Russian short story, The Beacon, by Korolenko,...