- …..she was in the process of sharpening her wits as though they were sterling filet knives. After long years of cognitive laziness, circumstance now demanded that she be nimble with her thinking, to be capable of outfoxing another person without that individual ever realizing they had been outfoxed. And that isn’t an easy thing to do, believe me; it defines the zenith of subtlety. If you win a mental contest but the other person instantly recognizes their defeat, that really doesn’t constitute a victory at all. It is a conditional, transient shifting of pieces —more of a Pyrrhic victory, at best. No, a genuine win is when you figuratively steal the shirt off another person’s back, yet that person walks around afterwards all glorified and puffed up and oblivious without once realizing they are buck naked above the waistline…..
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