Q 2675 suggests that we re-visit old crumbs and see what might have been missed before. How? Through the image / imagined-nation.
This post features an image of a pair of F-15's flying over northern Iraq in twilight. Their silhouettes mirror each other. That hints of something that is, at first, only faintly apparent to the viewer.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/01/15/airstrikes-against-isis-in-syria-up-in-recent-weeks/
The caption informs that the jets were returning from a mission in Syria (southwest of Iraq). Note that the sun is on the left hand side of the pilots. This would suggest a setting sun on the horizon in late evening.
That would mean Light to dark.
But the caption also says that this photo was taken during the early morning, not late evening, while the jets flew over northern Iraq. The sun rises in the east so the sun should be on the right hand side of the pilots as they flew northward and away from Syria.
The image has been flipped or mirrored for publication. The jets flew northward with a rising sun on the horizon. The photographer was on the left hand side of the pilots when the photo was taken. The sun was actually on their right hand side.
That would mean Dark to light.
The observant, or active, viewer would need to resolve the apparent contradiction between the caption (heading north during early morning) and the flipped image (appearing to be headed north during late evening). One reads into the image, the information, what is not at first apparent.
Think mirror. Think direction.
This brings us back to the Cardinal Directions on the Compass Rose. Hours, minutes, seconds, like on a clock face.
Direction can suggest heading and orientation along a bearing. And a destination. Can also suggest instructions, guidance, orchestration ( ie you are watching a movie) driving the plot forward.
Where there is light there is a shadow cast (even if only faintly) whether the shadow cast is long or short.
Take an intuitive leap (you've packed your parachute, right?):
Feint is a pretended attack used to distract an enemy. In boxing, a feint may be a blow that provokes a defensive action to one part of the opponent’s body while the boxer delivers a more destructive punch to another part of the opponent’s body. A feint may be a fencing thrust that draws an opponent to protect one part of his body while the fencer delivers a fatal stroke to another part of the opponent’s body. In war, a feint is a troop maneuver that distracts the enemy from the real attack. Feint may also be used as a verb, meaning to make a feint.
Faint is used as a verb to mean to pass out or lose consciousness temporarily. As a noun, faint means a sudden loss of consciousness. Faint, as an adjective, means dim or hardly perceptible, vague, slight, feeble, lacking enthusiasm or half-hearted.
Disinformation is real and necessary. Look there, or [here], or there, truth is behind you.