J.M. Coetzee (1940) South African writer
“Erasmus: Madness and Rivalry,” Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996), p. 94
“Truth: Emissions from the mouths of the powerful.”
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 181.
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