Wised-up, blandly skeptical students, on the other hand, lack any interest in distant truths, and they lack the habit of reverence that starts the great irreverent questioning on its way.
Camila Lechín, a young Bolivian chef, wrote an op-ed piece ridiculing Seidler's descriptions of Bolivian dishes, insisting that she had "a tourist's view of our gastronomy: anecdotal, exotic, distant from the truth".
Instead, the event has been, in most cases, erroneously represented in the media and subjectively glorified by people who are too distant from the truth to comment accurately.
But they happen when no one dares to tell truth to distant power.
About the only constants with Trump are impetuosity, a distant relationship with the truth, and a pathological need to be at the center of attention.
In Tillmans's show I saw the night sky over Kilimanjaro in a magnificent photograph that beggars belief, as the stars appear to twinkle in front of the distant peak; a poetic truth in that the mountain came after the stars.
In the same way the myths spun by journalists about what happened at the Jaipur Literature Festival have strayed ever further from the truth the more distant the commentators have been from what actually happened.
"Matt and I are sick of this insane environment where nobody bothers to heed the denials of the actual individuals involved and where facts and truth are a distant afterthought," Philippe Reines, a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton, wrote to journalists along with Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton.
William wondered briefly if perhaps she was indeed asking about shipping rates to the Northwest Territories that his brain had deciphered the true meaning of her words and relayed it to him as only a distant possibility, but that, in truth, he had finally lost his mind at last and would only hear garbled sentences until the merciful end. .
