Finally, if gestures can proclaim, they also obligate. Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) reminds us that action discloses who we are in the public sphere; Sissela Bok’s Lying (1978) underscores the moral cost when expression betrays truth. Bold gestures should therefore align risk with responsibility, aiming for clarity over spectacle and solidarity over self-display. Returning to Woolf, the charge is not simply to perform truth, but to let our bodies bear it—so that what we do is inseparable from what we say, and what onlookers see cannot be ignored. [...]
