Transitive Property of Ineptitude

Hoid's coined principle: a person who appears so spectacularly bad at something that the badness seems implausible is, in fact, demonstrating a higher form of competence — because feigning that degree of incompetence requires real skill. Offered, with the narrator's usual sincerity, as the explanation for anything the reader has ever seen him do wrong. STD:Tress:Ch 37