(urth) The Ziggurat and the "petite" lie

[Dave Tallman]

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> What's going on here? He's telling a lie his wife can contradict. That 
> might make sense if they had a loving relationship and could collude 
> beforehand, but they are adversaries in a divorce case. Another possible 
> explanation is that he knows his wife and kids are dead. So do we need 
> to dust off the Maximum Delusion theory I've seen in the archives
It looks like he just isn't thinking clearly, which is understandable. 
He doesn't believe his wife is dead, because he whispers to Tamar that  
his wife will not want a divorce after she learns of the new company. 
Tamar is asleep and doesn't understand everything he says, so there is 
no reason for him to lie to her.