Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.

Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

We have fallen into the trap of playing too slowly this season,

A daydream is an evasion.

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.