“I’ll give you the bones of what I know,” Bast said. “First, the fae don’t think of it as magic. They talk of art or craft. Seeming or shaping. But if they were to speak plainly, which they rarely do, they would call it glamourie and grammarie.” Kostrel watched him, rapt, as Bast continued. “The twin arts of making something either seem or be.“
– Patrick Rothfuss,
The Narrow Road Between Desires

“The media’s job is to deconstruct the manipulation, not to just call it a lie. It’s about informing on how something works so that you understand the lie’s purpose. What are the structural issues underneath the lie? The media shouldn’t take the political system personally, or allow its own narcissism to rise to the narcissism of the politicians, or become offended that the politicians are lying — their (the politicians) job is to manipulate.”
– Jon Stewart,
New York Times, June 15, 2020