Concept
The stable position vs. the stalled one
Some mutual deadlocks are legitimate final results, held in place because whoever moves first pays more. The test: in a stable position, moving is what costs you; in a stalled one, not moving is what costs you.
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Two — How to PracticeReceivingSix things you can do with what arrives at you — fighting back, withdrawing, parley, doing nothing, withholding, blending — and the test that tells a stable standoff from ordinary avoidance.
- Part Five — The Standing ThirdsThe Dyad-KinNineteen two-person patterns, each one two Self-Kin meeting. Know any two of the three and the third follows, which means changing your own leg changes what the two of you make.