[lit-ideas] Re: What Larry said about lying
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:59:58 -0330
Yes, I remember LK. He was either in philosophy or air traffic control, if
memory serves.
In sort of truth, the partial truth and something other than the truth, so help
me god,
Walter O.
Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Larry Kramer, on the old list, once used a concise phrase - a Jewish or
> Yiddish expression afair - that means (roughly) 'better to tell something not
> itself exactly or completely true but which nevertheless conveys the truth -
> rather than waste everybody's time trying to put the truth exactly or
> completely'. Such a phrase would come in handy manys a time and I wonder if
> anyone knows one?
>
> As an aside my mother has a series of phrases she uses that have spread like
> a meme to those introduced to them: one being 'They don't/didn't lick it up
> off the grass'. Meaning:- they learnt that behaviour or copied that from
> someone else, or were influenced to do it by someone else - where the
> behaviour is invariably bad, like stealing or lying, or some form of
> selfishness.
>
> Donal
> Showing signs of coming from a largely agricultural society
> That throws the net of blame wider than the individual
>
>
>
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