It’s been said that a tree is known by its fruit, and this has become a world where it is a risk to be known. Keep the light behind you and they won’t see you’re thinking. You might also pass off an original notion by prefacing it with ‘It’s an old idea that…’ or ‘It’s a cliché that…’. You’ve shunted it into the past, rendering it presumably banal. Hoaxers used to pass off narwhal horns as those of unicorns. A greater gift would be a unicorn horn passed off as that of a narwhal and the subsequent realisation of its worth as it turns gold over the fireplace.
