One advances not in the open, for example, where even a massive force can be assessed logically, but by devious and hidden routes, employing feints and disguises. If something vital, such as life itself, is at stake, losing track of a deadly threat in the fog of ambiguity can quickly lead to confusion, panic, and terror (which was the idea behind those Alfred Hitchcock classics), which in turn will cause the decision-making of the less agile party to break down. Deception then becomes like taking candy from a baby, and at this point he can easily be finished off, should that still be
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