The Place of Dead Roads

With this in mind,

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
I. LEWIS LIBBY
also known as "SCOOTER LIBBY"
INDICTMENT

COUNT ONE		Obstruction of Justice
COUNT TWO		False Statement
COUNT THREE		False Statement
COUNT FOUR		Perjury
COUNT FIVE		Perjury

I got to wondering what Mark Twain might have thought of all this. (Sources: brainyquote, wikiquote.)

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
• A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

And this one

• Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

reminded me of this passage from the book The Apprentice : A Novel

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.

by Lewis Libby