And thus... the red herring has nothing to do with the drama at hand, the intent of the training, or the manifest purpose... but is the primal distraction of honest instincts...

                                                                                                    "The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes- and ships- and sealing wax-
Of cabbages- and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings."