“It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it,
shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes,
shameful to call a funeral a wedding
and play the fool at funerals besides.”

—  Andrey Voznesensky

Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20.

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