monthoffearart:

“Decay of the Heart”

By Caroline Jamhour
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For Month of Fear 2018 – “Lies“

“An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
— William Shakespeare

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
— Plato

The “heart rot” is a tree disease in which fungus causes the decay of the heartwood at the center of the trunk. Mushrooms often appear on the outside of the bark as an indication of the disease.