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March 24, 2006
I'm reading Montaigne's Essays. The one I'm currently reading is called On Lies. In it Montaigne says:
Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. if we realize the horror and weight of lying we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes.
Quintilian observed that a liar had better have a good memory. Memory comes into it because the standard lines of the Howard Government and its hand-picked sycophants suffer from a case of collective amnesia in political history. Its bywords after 10 years are 'I cannot recall', 'I do not recollect', 'I wasn't told' and 'I don't remember'.
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