If you read to the end, you realize that it’s more complicated than that. It truly and legitimately felt like cheating, and yet under the written rules, it was

If you read to the end, you realize that it’s more complicated than that. It truly and legitimately felt like cheating, and yet under the written rules, it was not clearly cheating. That’s part of what makes this such a great story. He knew it was cheating, even if it wasn’t cheating from a these are the rules perspective. That is, cheating exists within a cultural context, not just a written context. I feel like this is a weird place in American law: the law is an interpretive endeavor, and yet it is treated as a “rule” where loopholes are “ok” even if it’s not in line with the spirit of the law.