Death in the Afternoon

I think the shift here from third person to first is very effective, as are the demands for impossibilities -- concluding with the very possible "death in the afternoon". 

A question, since I've noticed a recurring theme in your writing:  do you think it's more difficult to lie in the written form?  Do words, committed to ink, somehow become more true?  Or is it just that they are to be read by more people than the number that will hear the spoken words, and therefore they must be true for one at least?  Just pondering, really.