It is obvious, once one considers the subject at all, that our eyes cannot see the whole universe. Nonetheless, language programs us to try to speak, or to accidentally give the impression that we are trying to speak, as if we possessed the kind of infallibility claimed by the Pope or the Central Committee of a Marxist party. The task seems impossible, but Zen riddles, Sufi jokes, the works of Aleister Crowley, and a few heroic efforts by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein seem able to jolt readers awake-shake them out of the hypnosis of words. Success in this field does not depend on the author alone, however. It requires not only the right words, but the right reader at the right time, before the shock and awakening can occur.
Words can never say what words can never say.
With the right reader at the right time, words can, in fact, say what they can never say. One of those propositions is the most dangerous lie in this book. All Rights Reserved.