WHAT would have happened had Pinocchio never lied? He would have been a good boy. His nose would have been normal length. As for his life: he would have woken at six, cleaned his teeth, combed his hair, had breakfast with his patient father, Gapeto, and gone to school. He would have been an obedient child, at school and at church. There would have been no alarming behavior. His story would not have been an adventure.

Boring, needless to say