Would It Hurt You To Fake This?

“You’re having a conversation. The other person mentions a name, the name of a book, the name of a person you ought to know the name of, the name of a theory you should have heard of — that’s the implication. And there’s that moment of decision: you could either speak up and say, ‘Oh, I don’t know who you’re making reference to or what you’re talking about,’ … or you could fake it.”