01.29.07
The Essays: Sixth Post (Lies)
Bacon seems very ambiguous when it comes to truth and lies. He sees the economic value of lies and perhaps the use they may have in poetry, and he seems to feel that though there are other uses, he isn’t sure what they are. And he really doesn’t seem sold on the value of poetry, anyway. Beyond that, he sees truth as something to lord over others. It was all very odd. Truth didn’t seem all that useful, but neither did lies if this essay were all we went by. Perhaps we should all stop communicating with each other altogether and be completely ridiculous!