The Decay of Lying

"The argument is that the obsession of the modern world with truth and facts is responsible for the decline of modern literature (which I'm gonna interpret more broadly as the decline of art in general). To quote "if something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of f"

"if something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, Art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land."