May 2012
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
13h 58m
English
I tell only useful lies, and only those not easily exposed.
Rex Stout
Trust betrayal is impossible without some level of deception. At the very least, under the most benign of circumstances, this may mean self-deception comingled with ambiguity or equivocation. Thus, the cheating spouse seeking to mask infidelities by openly claiming to have spent last night in an illicit liaison cannot possibly mask the betrayal unless his or her audience engages in the kind of self-delusion that discounts the admission as a tongue-in-cheek remark. At the same time, the one offering such a remark by speaking true words in jest knowingly commits an act of deception by presenting a truth as a lie, perhaps ...