Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Chinese Checkers

Inscrutable, enigmatic and as the Cambridge dictionary puts it: “not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore very difficult to understand or get to know.”

Upon reading the tea leaves left from the recent Sino-Russian tête-à-tête, Secretary Anthony Blinken said: “They have a marriage of convenience – I’m not sure if it’s conviction. Russia is very much a junior partner in this relationship.”