The answer (which by the way is yes) lies in the fact that the classic values of clear, direct storytelling do not apply in the normal way.
Well, having a strategy would be best — he still doesn't appear to have one for the Islamic State — not saying anything would be second best, and yes, lying would be preferable to letting the world know the president and his team are adrift.
2. Yunior - Author Junot Diaz created a decidedly unreliable yet entirely likeable narrator in The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, in Yunior, who not only never tells us his full name, but who openly admits to exaggerating, elaborating and, yes, lying.
I have never lied to my people, maybe a little lack of communication yes, but lying, no!
All women have to do to get laid is say "yes" and lie down.
The continual suppression of the connection between public will and public policy for years on end created an outcome that while not predictable, was always a possibility: the irrational election of a demagogue that opportunistically took advantage of — yes, racism lying in wait, but also — frustration with a dysfunctional, unresponsive system of civics.
Midway through the Trump administration—oh god, how are we only midway?—the country has grown accustomed to a president who constantly flubs, misspeaks, dissembles, equivocates, and, yes, lies.
Walks down the high street or journeys on the underground turn into mental games of 'no, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes no' with everyone you lay eyes on.
This snow was completely different from the snow we'd had in November: back then, it had been all brightness and visible marks, tracks and scuffs in the white turning to plum blue and black as darkness fell, but this one was dark from the first, a new variant of dark: white as it lay, yes, but already plum blue and black as it tumbled down out of the low clouds.
This vast grassland basin is set in a region known as South Park and, yes, here lies the town of Fairplay, upon which the animated sitcom is said to be based.
