SOME REPRESENTATIVE CLASSES OF TRUTH

truth ... does it have a paltry worn-out sound these days ... is it a small thing like whether or not to use it just now ... is it malleable as if to craft it by hand to put it to good use ... most of all is it ours or does the heart of it belong to someone else ... there is a class of citizens I think who see it as a number ... they are perhaps our oldest class ... from sicili before christ before aristotle plato and socrates ... they are an ancient class ... they may not be exciting at first glance but they are precise ... we have another class who dismiss all the numbers but one because from that one they say all the others come and everything else that ever was or is likely ... but this group ends up fanatically if they take what they say seriously ... then there's the class that makes it up as they go ... which is not the easy thing you may think it sounds ... indeed this is the class that I think must work the hardest ... they have their simplifying slogans but they must put them in the box with all the others and then put the box away to go into the books where they have not so much law or justice and certainly not tradition but a code whose pages fly in on the wind and go out that way too