Abigail comments on Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Abigail 16 October 2008 03:55:16PM 6 points [-]

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive But- practice makes perfect. Soon, fair youth, Your lies will seem as pure as truth.

I thought quite hard before I came up with an answer to Sir Walter which rhymed and scanned. The hero of that poem, whose name I cannot remember at the moment, is fair haired. Perhaps it is not also true, but perhaps that is the point.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 30 June 2014 12:54:22PM 1 point [-]

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive. But if we practise for a bit, we tend to get quite good at it.