“[I]n the age of the lie, the truth sometimes throws its head back and bursts out laughing.”
Credit:
Source:
Preface to Leys’s Chinese Shadows
Extended quote:
“Let’s keep reading these works, so that we may see that in the age of the lie, the truth sometimes throws its head back and bursts out laughing.”
Source URL:
http://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/one-decent-man