I am at odds with those who will lie, and then pretend that, because you may make what you please of it, they have done something beautiful. So if they lie about Rumi, or brain hemispheres, or the nature of Justice — or anything at all — as long as it is ‘positive’ … well, that’s what you should take away.

When I mention they are lying (about something beautiful) they do not take well to this, and try to make me out as someone with a negative agenda. Could they be lying about that, too? Why do they believe that lying about truth or beauty becomes beauty if you just ‘think positively’ about it? It doesn’t. Beauty and truth have a necessary relationship. I do not think either is likely to be sustained in a context of misrepresentation, be it intentional or naive.