Once you realize that the classic hiding of chocolates – the box behind the flour, the pralines among the tea bags, the velvet pouch in the shallow cutlery drawer – fails time and again because hungry relatives don’t actually search but predict (and prediction is the stubborn cousin of habit), there appears the bold yet persuasive strategy of hiding in plain sight, where perception, clouded by accessibility and numbed by routine, forgoes suspicion precisely because the mind refuses to believe that anyone would so brazenly display their treasure and still keep it, thus creating the paradox that one’s possession is all the more secure the more brazenly it is displayed.