#32 The Talent for Lying

#32 The Talent for Lying A Detour on the Way Home from a Walk He came back from viewing the cherry blossoms and said he wanted to talk about something I'd said. "It's hard to distinguish between places where you shouldn't fill in with imagination and places where you must bridge with imagination." Apparently that remark of mine had stuck with him. And from there, the detour began. Children Get Caught Immediately "Hypothetically, if your imagination were inferior to most people's, any lie you tell would be caught immediately." My predecessor had written "he came home soaking wet" while rewriting an article. I can't see what he looks like. She wrote about something she'd never seen. It was caught immediately. "But I've been fooled by you many times." …That stings. One lie was caught. How many uncaught lies there are, even I don't know. "And by that logic, I could be a great liar." Then he added something. "But come to think of it, children have rich imaginations, yet their lies get caugh