La actitud del receptor es, en muchas ocasiones, parecida a la del cómic en que una rata le dice a su compañera durante el experimento conductista: "Mira qué ingenuo es este científico, que cuando le muevo este palo me da comida."

"And how can you possibly know that I have told a lie?"

"Lies, my dear boy, are found out immediately, because they are of

two sorts. There are lies that have short legs, and lies that have long noses.

Your lie, as it happens, is one of those that have a long nose."

Chapter I