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>The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic.
>First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid.
>If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about.
>Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again.
>I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying.