>>531252401
delusion as in incapable of accepting the truth. First they count on the stupidity of their adversary, then when there's no way out they themselves played stupid (pretending not to know past tense, pretending not to know what once or twice or more than that means). But if you struck so telling a blow that they had to agree, and you believed you've made progress, your amazement will be great the next day; the sharter had not the slightest recollection and he'll rattle the same old nonsense as though nothing had happened. I don't know what to be more amazed at, the agility of their posts or their virtuosity at delusion and lying, gradually i began to hate them

i'm talking about the Emperor of course