"Mm," says Loel. His tentative conclusion is that he is in fact really good at what you might call 'really immersive lying', which is a kind of acting like you don't know something when you do. (And not something he'd like to bring up right now, given that there is still one person in this room who doesn't know his life history.) But, on the other hand, some kinds of knowledge are much harder to ignore than others.