I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Of the many quirks about Italian law, perhaps the most intriguing is the fact that there's no such thing as perjury in civil court trials. A defendant has the constitutional right to do anything necessary to defend himself, and that includes lying. It's up to the plaintiff to prove a lie, if there is one.
posted by John M Crowther @ 9:05 AM
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Artist, writer, filmmaker, actor. Wrote "The Evil That Men Do" starring Charles Bronson. "Missing in Action" starring Chuck Norris. Performed one-man play "Einstein" off-Broadway and in Europe. Tours US with "Meet Mr. Wright," his one-man play about Frank Lloyd Wright. Art exhibitions in Italy and U.S. His work as a cartoonist has been seen in MAD magazine. Illustrated the children's books "How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy" and "The Man In the Red Bandana" about his nephew Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, written by his niece, Honor Crowther Fagin, Welles's sister. Author of novel "Firebase," published in UK by Constable and US by St. Martins Press. For many years an avid student and reader of Tarot. Performs weddings as a Los Angeles County Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage.
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But what is the truth? The truth to a liar is the lie they just told believing with all their heart that it was the truth. Sadly... there is no countering it. The liar (astonishingly) has his own version of it.
Jean, there's a riddle about a man traveling in a strange country in which all the people are either truth tellers or liars. The traveler comes to a fork in the road, but doesn't know which fork to take to get to the town. A native is standing there, but there's no way to know whether he's a liar or a truth teller. What one question can the man ask that is guaranteed to get him to his destination? (There's no trick here. Hint: it's all about double negatives.)
BTW, the truth tellers only ever tell the truth. The liars only ever tell lies. Therefore the liar will only respond to the question with a lie, while the truth teller will only answer the question with the truth. Again, it's not a trick, it's a problem of logic.
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