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Y the time I was four or five I felt my sins were so enormous that I This was entirely black inside. wasn't just a vague feeling but a convic- tion so vivid that when I fell down and grazed myself the pain disappeared in my Not relief at seeing the blood run red. that a gallon of red blood could have altered my belief, but it concealed the damning state of affairs from my and parents.
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My parents were not unusually strict; on the contrary, it often astonished me how lightly they would treat some misdemeanour for which 1 expected little less than death. We had swings and a big garden and a house built by my brother and me so high among the branches of a deodar that no adult could reach it.
But there were certain things that were
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938
SHUTTING EYES
TO DANGER
Every one must realise the
terrible potentialities of
the
current Russo-Japanese dispute of it.
with
my threats
спикей, Nothing like that ever had seen a ferocious oid man, whom I was friendly dismissed heads, and
covered gardening Implements as "story-telling." It and the danger to the peace of happened to us, and my brother, 1 said, coming in from the woods
bottom of the garden most of the routine events of as it was, enough alarm for the is growing
life-had 1 washed my doctor to be called in for a sort the world which
as far as I can remember, was at the ominously large at Changku-
had 1 stolen feng, a hilly few square miles never once accused of telling a with a rusty spear in his hands. my
my But the result was unsatisfac- on myself from the Hidden in the hills around my hands, did 1 want to go to the of psycho-physical examination.
tory
1 because, guess, they of country near the junelion of lie. But the borders of Manchukuo, Rus- earliest years a fatal curse had preparatory school was an army lavatory,
of Bolshevika with pistols firing brother's pocket knife? But it seems to fixed itself: I was a liar.
The sia and Korea.
answer to these ques- suspected me of telling lies. pins which sounded like rain-
It seems to me now a pity be the policy of the European
In tions, if it was supplied by me, How it began I don't know. drops against the window.
known capitals to shut their eyes to
untrust that I wasted all that strength cot clutch my the privet hedge which shut off was
It Beems a pity The facts and hope for the best. That attitude has been charac-brother's rag-books so fiercely the vegetable garden from the worthy; in fact, it was usually and herrer.
in a strange looked on as the opposite of the that children are not endowed
Did
I in my
teristic of the British Govern- ment as much as any other dur- to myself that I implied, even lawn I had seen ing the last few years and may
before I could
pronounce the were mine?
have been in a large measure words, that they responsible for the successful Still earlier did I pretend that series of coups which ambitious I had had nothing to drink for
Lo be
BY TANGYE LEAN
so that
I have
with intelligence and a sense of justice instead of stupidity and a crippling load of guilt, because often more lies are told to them than
lenders recently accomplished at hours, although the bottle had flood of yellow light an officer truth,
states.
the
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I
girl who had her arm around innocent can scarcely have been commissioners, and the children But if the Great Powers could only just been wrested from my wearing naval uniform kiss a thought the desire to appear to any class of people except tax
among my motives, since the are not able to expose them. afford to trust to luck and the inebriate grip?
his shoulder.
They are told that they were League of Nations in such crises
From the time I can remem-
found under gooseberry bushes, that which grew between
But the last of these I never jury returned its verdict before
because 1 had the trial had begun.
Well, there it was: told that the old man dressed in red told to anyone, Yugo-Slavia and Hungary fol- ber clearly there were two kinds of of lie in which I specialised. lowing the assassination King Alexander; or that which The first didn't feel like a lie at learnt by then that it was dan deliberate lies, the fact was ac- sacks and a false beard is Father knowledged throughout the Christmas, that it will rain if followed the original German all, because there was none of threat to invade Austria, which brought the Italians swiftly to that fearful strain as the words stiffening in the atmosphere as family, for by now my brother, they don't behave themselves, the Brenner Pass; or that which approached my tongue, as, my you talked; then, if you paused, whose thoughts had once been that they don't grow up at all if developed with intervention in eyes stiff with horror, I seemed a strangely intent look and two more merciful, had been infect- they don't do this and that; and
or three icy questions
ed by the doctrine of sin, and although they are half aware of
to safeguard himself when it that these things are lies, they Spain; or that which arose out to watch it flow out involuntarily exposed the impossibility of the Italian
of into the air in front of me. invasion
what you said. After that the was a question of apportioning don't know enough to be able to Ethiopia, or any of those other
gerous.
There
Was a slight
which
blame would invoke my reputa- refute them, they feel only a it tion.
dim sense of outrage at being crime from accused of the which they themselves continual- ly suffer.
ed
Often I used to feel so furious that I could, like the enfeebled ded Samson, have lifted giant pillars ith to bring destruction un
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their
The lie, I know, is a necessary part of civilisation; all kind and good-hearted people use it as well as nurses on the lookout for
By Lichty expedient threats; but don't let
them vent their own sense of guilt like aerial torpedoes on the children they are supposed to be educating.
The other day when I was in the country I was walking past a hedge which borders a cottage garden. There was a woman bending over one of the flower- beds and a small boy ran up to her making a noise like a onc cylinder petrol engine. "Mum- my," he roared, "Mummy! I'm a wasp!"
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And then as I stopped dead to listen-for it seemed to me a terrific situation, and I thought his voice had faltered a bit on the last word as if he were not quite certain of its truth-there was a pause in which everything seemed to hold its breath.
But the mother stirred slight-· ly over her plants and said, "Well, don't ating me, will you?" and I was already walking on up the road with joy in heart, and I could hear the small boy threatening her, "I might, Mummy, I might, be cause I'm such a big one."
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