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a plot intended to subvert another plot

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make a plot in response to another plot

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(22.) On the "counterplotting" of emperors' mothers in Tacitus, see O'Gorman 2000, 122-43.

Specters of Medea the rhetoric of stepmotherhood and motherhood in Seneca's Phaedra

In a world where there are very few people she can trust, she is hungry for advice (at one particularly complicated moment in the plotting and counterplotting she almost entreats--'my head reels--for God's sake give me your advice').

The ambassador, the grand duke, his wife and her lover: Tony Brenton tells of the clandestine correspondence between the future Catherine the Great and the British Ambassador to St Petersburg over eleven months from July 1756

(Which, of course, is exactly the point of the joke: the statement about mutual sensitivity, caring, and understanding is literally incomprehensible.) Or think of the "The One Where Everybody Finds Out" episode from the fifth season of Friends, in which Phoebe and Rachel plot to play a practical joke on Chandler and Monika, but then the plotting and counterplotting get slightly of out hand.

Why Jane Austen was different, and why we may need cognitive science to see it

But they would no longer be allowed to engage in self-serving tinkering, plotting and counterplotting.

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