But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French r…

William Peter Blatty
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
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When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. ✨ William Peter Blatty (2015). Elsewhere, p.122, Macmillan
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

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