I hadn't heard of a name for this rhetorical tactic until just the other day but it feels like a frustratingly familiar bit of nonsense.

I linked an article which describes it, and provides a few examples of how it is sometimes applied (albeit with a bizarrely political slant - I would have preferred something as descriptive but in a less loaded context), but the basic gist is "your denial of guilt is used as the proof of guilt" regarding some accusation.

With how often I hear Franz Kafka come up in passing, I wonder if it is worth tracking down any of his writing. I am not sure if it would be interesting (hence why everyone seems to know of it) or frustrating (hence why everyone references it).

Not much noteworthy is happening so that was at least a neat idea,
...Nights