NFN is switching things up this week as I talk about Oscar Wilde's essay published in 1891, "The Decay of Lying" with the undergraduate Economics & Russian major, Evan Regan. We discuss Wilde's  bizarre yet intriguing theory of truth being found in art and reality being something that merely imitates the former. We talk about meaningful serendipity, the purpose of life as a form of expression, pretending, and if nature really is inherently beautiful.