On these new terms, he defines self-deception as an agent's persistent refusal to spell out (explicitly acknowledge) some aspect of her engagement in the world.
The soil is moist with fecundity; undergrowths are thick with mystery; ropy climbers swing and interlock in every direction; the canopy lends a spell of brooding shadows.
It occurred to me that abjuration was the school of magic manipulating magic (for example, dispel magic)... which means that abjurers really ought to be the nastiest spell-duelists out there.