{Truth in Cultures [continued]}[29th October 1988]

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But truth, and straightness, are important: one of the terrifying developments in Metropolitan English culture at present is the loss of truthfulness.*

Then again, too rigorous an insistence on straight-forward approaches to truth (and one’s own possession of Truth, the unpossessable) makes Art impossible; there is a hint of this in a discussion of Scots literature in the T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] this week.**

*(perhaps a blend of native hypocrisy with immigrant Celtic fantasy?)

**[No ref given]

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