And there were the little deceits, like imposing a hefty fee on conventioneers for the "privilege" of billing to the hotel's own master account -- even though the hotel saved the credit card commissions it would otherwise have had to pay.
There's the man who lies compulsively, in a bid for secret intimacy with those he can persuade to join him in deceit, just like his mother hid evidence of his bedwetting; and the woman who finally realises how effortfully she's been denying the evidence of her husband's infidelity when she notices how neatly someone has stacked the dishwasher.
Though there are references to such things as philosophy and empty deceit (2 8), Jewish-like practices (2 16), visions (2 18), and "rigour of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body" (2 23), the source of these teachings is not quite clear.
"This attack of bile, I don't doubt, must have been brought on by unpleasant memories of Mr. Nixon's occupation of the White House, for nobody in American history, I dare say, has given the language of sport such a bad name by using it to recommend a strategy of deceit". Richard Nixon used to like football as a metaphor for politics, diplomacy and warfare.
(How unfortunate can an abbreviation be? You can almost smell the deceit, laid down like asphalt).
This is an intriguing and challenging area (particularly from the point of view of modelling) that calls on things like deceit: e.g., (Talwar & Lee, 2008).
And although the final scenes – in which Jean-Marie finds himself in a boarded-up chateau alongside the blind tiger he has raised from a cub, the mob at the gates – are powerfully alive, they feel like a deceit, because the essential problem throughout is that Jean-Marie is hard to like.
Either way, the fact of the matter is that whether we like it or not, deceit is everywhere.
They're supposed to be allowed to fail, but when tens of thousands of people get excited about the project, every false step starts to look like intentional deceit.
3. Admit that you like the deceit.
