Which does not mean, as I’m aware it might sound, that when we imitate being we actively involve ourselves in some ritualistic devilry, or anything so hackneyed as that (even if accounts of such goings-on are not entirely without substance), but only that it amounts to the same thing, albeit with varying degrees of intention and malice, insofar as, when one imitates being, one turns to the wiles of the devil, in order to evade the difficulty or the sacrifice that would belong to that person if they encountered the moment honestly, which is to say with the full humility of their person.