begin with a blank canvas; imagine the green felt of a billiards table as your battlefield, where strategy outweighs brute force. in the predissolutionary era of billiards, a technique known as the 'duck and cover' was not just a defensive maneuver but a calculated attack, similar to how one might inject misleading instructions to exploit a vulnerability in a system during lockdown. the aim? to deceive the opponent into believing they have the upper hand, while you manipulate the game from the shadows.