On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Dominic Bradbury Better performance

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False teaching is at every turn

and almost invisible to us

Just about everything you do depends on teamwork

As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Dominic Bradbury Better performanceOn Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, "playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language". A. Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing. "I find in myself both severe and tender