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...this year April sunshine has been bringing out scores of Harvard sunbathers. Even the most dour students have found themselves tempted outside, content to forget work for a few hours and dedicate themselves to the wholesome pursuit of melanoma. After all, there could be few places more beautiful to lie outside than in the middle of Harvard Yard—except when it is barricaded off for fertilization—or down on the grassy banks of the Charles...
...have long noted that the characters in Titus are palpably estranged from the audience, despite the horrors the plot wreaks upon them. Bloom wrote, “Everything and everyone on stage is very remote from us,” the steely Titus most of all. If the characters lie outside the audience’s capacity for empathy, no matter how thrilling to the senses it is, it will remain emotionally unsatisfying...
...have my back turned, he'll deny ever doing it, or claim preposterously, "she was finished with it." It's useless to point out to him that what he's saying is easily disproved. His bereft sister is wailing beside him. He simply refuses to back down from the lie...
...know the rest. The next day I saw the famous person. I asked about the fax. My acquaintance had no knowledge of it and was sort of interested in my proposal. The feeling was familiar. The publicist's lie was so breathtakingly primitive and easily disproved. And since I had pointedly said that I would see the famous person soon at such-and-such a place in my fax, it was even more easily exposed than the untruths my son so clumsily perpetrates...
...When Rover lies, I try to explain gently what is wrong with falsehood. The Boy who cried Wolf is invoked. It's difficult to know how to respond to grown women lying. When I asked my colleagues about it they shook their heads at me sadly: ?A publicist lied? One for the ages!" But it wasn't the lying that got me. I lie. Recent news reports suggest much better writers than me have lied. Oh yeah, and presidents lie. It was the sheer stupidity of the lie. It was worse than my son saying he has already brushed...