The players Hodgson selects will provide evidence as to whether he has been fooled into believing that a team can play for the point.
That glimpse of Criss Cross is a clue to another narrative convention that Ellroy borrows from 1940s film noir: our antihero tells his story to let us see that he has been fooled all along.
Leamas, to put it in vague terms – not to give the story away – finally realises how he has been used by his own side, how he has been fooled, manipulated and misinformed to bring about a conclusion that was the opposite of the one he thought he was colluding in.
After, Ste leaves a note for Brendan telling him he has been fooled, and he wants Doug and the Deli, not him.
You can hide in the distance to watch complete fear overwhelm your victim until he realizes he has been fooled.
And all this time he had been fooling around with arguments, with philosophy and political science.
Hiding behind dark glasses and sometimes burying his face in his hands, Mr. de Guzman said he had been fooling around with fellow students in an informal club called GrammerSoft and had only wanted to create "a gimmick" -- a term used among young people here for an event that is exciting and fun.
In one of the few interviews given by this quiet, self-effacing man who preferred country and western music to R&B, Tarplin told me that he had been "fooling around" with his Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar, playing phrases from Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song, when inspiration struck.
Years later, wondering about that "69 Devils" business, I asked Dylan what the fuck had happened to him out on that porch, and whether he had been fooling us.
The manager told him how he had been fooled into tearing down a wall between two apartments.
