I've been writing on VUCA, but am not yet ready to publish. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and easy to identify in life. But ambiguity is like seeking to grasp quicksilver: it slips through your finger. Because of this, we aren't always aware of the problem that we are facing and find it difficult to put a label on it. After all, diagnosis is half way to remedy. Yes, normal ambiguity involves dilemmas, double binds, polarities, paradoxes, and cognitive dissonances. The different disguises that Ambiguity takes require different tools (e.g., dilemmas need dilemma flipping, polarities need polarity maps). However, Empson wrote of seven types of polarities that occur in daily life, separate to the formal ones described above. He skillfully does this in the form of a novel, which has all the ingredients of excellent plot and well constructed characters. When you complete the book you are aware that you have encountered ambiguity, not in literary form, but in human life. It is sophisticated. It helps redefine ambiguity as we encounter it in the contradictory elements of our contemporary lives, in marriage, family, work, and personal relationships.