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(this post was reblogged from wwnorton)
Vaclav Havel has pointed out, in the spirit of a warning, how easily language enables us to shade the truth, how a context of meaning can subtly alter the integrity of what we say. How words are placed, what surrounds them, who interprets them, the hidden intention that lurk between the words, can transform truth into something else entirely.
Jeremy Campbell, The Liar’s Tale: A History of Falsehood (via wwnorton)
