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Page 46
... Truth was the enemy of the people , because truth was so terrible , so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with bet- ter and better lies " ( p . 143 ) . Bokonon and his partner McCabe de- vise a system of dynamic tension ...
... Truth was the enemy of the people , because truth was so terrible , so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with bet- ter and better lies " ( p . 143 ) . Bokonon and his partner McCabe de- vise a system of dynamic tension ...
Page 120
... truth ; they felt that the shab- bily concealed make - believe of fiction was a poor substitute for the more immediate truth of biography , newsprint , and television . " Nobody is willing to suspend disbelief in that particular way ...
... truth ; they felt that the shab- bily concealed make - believe of fiction was a poor substitute for the more immediate truth of biography , newsprint , and television . " Nobody is willing to suspend disbelief in that particular way ...
Page 155
... truths are larger still , and it would be a shame to sacrifice the novel's great scope simply because its methods ... truth resides not in some moral we draw from the life he has imitated but rather from his invention before us on the ...
... truths are larger still , and it would be a shame to sacrifice the novel's great scope simply because its methods ... truth resides not in some moral we draw from the life he has imitated but rather from his invention before us on the ...
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