Kircher, Mr. Gorman said, was playing with "deception and demonology," which was "no laughing matter in the 17th century".
It was on one hand refreshing to sit with one of our regional distributors of seafood and hear them very candidly acknowledge that the handful of so-called premium salmon brands that have emerged since CleanFish's starting up the category in 2004, were, in their words, a "scam", or a "joke", or a "pay-to-play deception".
Games will be played, and deception will occur -- this is the nature of the political beast.
Filing back on deception and playing with the facts could potentially doom the firm.
And Happy Times, from 2001, is a curious fable about a deception played on a blind woman.
Deception plays such a large role in his work that it makes her wonder who he really is.
The deception played out over at least eight years, involved dual accounting books, more than 7,000 forged invoices, dozens of fake bank statements, thousands of unnecessary employees and auditors who received fees several times the market rate, according to a charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a court in Hyderabad.
It's not a subtle piece of dramaturgy, but the circumstance of the title character, a nurse who is a reluctant partner in the deception (played with utterly convincing humility by Adriane Lenox), becomes unusually wrenching as she slowly and inexorably loses moral ground.
She, though, has to play layers of deception.
By all means play Drake's Deception; it is an excellent game.
