If you got stronger this year and nobody found out, does it count?

Yes, obviously. You answered in half a second.

Now put the same question to the one who heaved a hundred and forty up crooked
in October rather than rack it and come back for it next week.
Same answer. Same half second. A lie.

Nothing has changed except that it is true now,
and there is no way to tell those two apart from outside.

The Book of the Beast — Return 34:5