It was conceived in a moment.

For one short, utterly glorious, bliss-filled interlude his head was filled with the most emphatic and thoroughly resounding air of superiority.

“Wow!” they would respond.

“I never knew!”

“You’re such a dark horse!”

“Really?”

And after the acceptance and accolades and adorning acolytes he would flatly retort, “No. I was just seeing if you were paying attention.”