Day 1,075: subterfuge

He wouldn’t admit he was unprepared and used a subterfuge to get out of the competition.

Artwork of the day 
Competition on the Capitoline Hill
Agostino Tassi
Date: c.1630
Style: Baroque
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
subterfuge: a baffling or devious method for avoiding difficulty or unpleasantness 

Quote of the day
“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera