«تَعَارَجْتُ لَا رَغْبَةً فِي الْعَرَجِ، وَلَكِنْ لِأَقْرَعَ بَابَ الْفَرَجِ»
I affected a limp, not because I wished to be lame, but to knock at the door of relief.
The narrator had first seen a limp. The later verb *taʿārajtu* reveals that the movement was affected. The earlier observation remains true—he appeared to limp—but the explanation of that observation must change.
The contrast “not because ... but in order to ...” explicitly distinguishes outward performance from asserted purpose. Such delayed explanation is a narrative reversal: it does not erase what the reader saw; it changes its causal interpretation. Close reading keeps the initial evidence separate from the later confession.