Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Truthsense

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Memory Loss

“Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?” 

—John Cheever, writer, in his short story, The Swimmer, The New Yorker, 1964 (Thanks to alert WORDster John Coats)







Editorial Comment: The nation’s truthsense is on life-support.


PeezPix by Ted Pease

American Dream






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