After posting my words of encouragement, I opened up my First Amendment textbook to look at today’s materials. They are on false statements of fact, and I included an epigraph — coincidentally called A Word of Encouragement, by J.R. Pope. It reads (in one of the several forms that I’ve seen):
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive
But when we’ve practiced quite a while
How vastly we impove our style.
For obvious reasons, of course, this has nothing to do with the alleged forgeries, but I thought it was amusing enough to pass along in any event.
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