Pierian Springs Press
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We are a literary publisher of poetry, novels, short stories, and both general and academic creative non-fiction with a focus on memoir and essays. Our distribution is global. We produce audiobooks, translations, & classics in English & foreign languages.
There is an old word for this, “hypocrisy” -- the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. From Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer (a fellow actor on stage).
November 19, 2024 at 4:42 AM
There is an old word for this, “hypocrisy” -- the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. From Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer (a fellow actor on stage).