Slow. Methodical. Thoughtful. It is the only way to proceed when playing with fire, figuratively speaking. While I allow myself to be impulsive at times, this is not one of them. So, I find myself in the predicament of “Amélie Poulin”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0211915/, relying on _stratagème_ in order to satisfy my imagination’s wild aims.

If the cryptic nature of my writing today has yet to sink in, I will say that my imagination is not truly the source of my conflicted state, as implied above, but rather its boundless ability to create satisfying states of mind stems secondarily from another source. In fact, it is blindly following, the pull too intense to ignore. Any description of this originator would, no doubt, reveal it to you, dear reader, thereby compromising the very integrity of my secret. I realize I am being hard on you, perhaps too hard. In time, the details of the future shall be revealed.

Of Amélie, it was said « _Elle aime ça, les stratagèmes._ » Well, so do I. I just wish I were as creative and thoughtful as her at formulating them. Truth be told, in reality I have only my wits, not secret plans. Secret plans make for delusion and more fires, things I’d do well to _not_ create.