And if you try to
hide trouble, or the
fact that you are considering a pivot, your silence will inevitably worsen the
situation by generating confusion, speculation and plenty
of gossip.
The point
of the comparison is not merely the piecemeal disclosure
of hidden facts, nor the process
of investigation, but a kind
of mental innocence; Sophocles unfolds a cat - and - mouse
situation of great horror while leaving the obvious psychological resources
of anguish and dread and recurring false hopes strangely unexploited.