Minds o' mush

"My girlfriend is doind my homework for me. She thinks I'm doing a different piece of homework that I made up but it doesn't exist and really I'm just reading grouphug."

-Looks like navel gazing to me but this cat has got it all psyched out...

Peter Brooks has a wonderful book on this subject, Troubling Confessions, in which he considers the ambivalence and indeterminacy of the truth of confessions, voluntary or otherwise. As he puts it, “How can someone make a false confession? Precisely because the false referentiality of confession may be secondary to the need to confess.” And further, that the false confession may not be a lie, “in that its definition of the truth corresponds to [an] order of desire and self-conception,”

-Uh huh. Hey, did you read the one about the guy who took a dump and tossed it in his neighbor's yard?