10.

barriers and barricades

high walls and locked doors

routines and regimens

forms and rationalizations

designed and determined

to block out the truth

to create the deception

of Reality

in the Name of the Truth

Rules, schedules and deadlines

Stern glances, serious grimaces

Masks of authority

Games of conformity

The editor's red line

The marginal remark

the final bottom line

Gateways and passages

Strategic silences and

Screens of opportunity and systematic neglect

polite gestures of benevolent will

empty smiles, empty words, empty hands

tests, examinations, quotas and curves

proofs and performances

perfection and failure

in the Name of Truth

the disguise of reality

the veil of Maya

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