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From: dahlback@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty (or lack thereo
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 17:37:00 EDT
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In any case, the significance of their "lies" in this context (if I remember
correctly) was that in Captain Kirk's final tape he expressed his true
feelings for them, feelings he wouldn't have expressed otherwise (being
captain). So the "lie" was far more meaningful than the prosaic truth
would have been. Sort of the converse of Twain's epigram, "It takes
two people to hurt you to the core: your enemy to talk behind your back,
and your friend to carry the news to you."