Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.