Bonhoeffer's Life Together (1939) develops an account of confession most readers miss: confession is not primarily the acknowledgment of past wrongs, nor a therapeutic disclosure of guilt, nor in the first instance a transaction between sinner and God. Confession is the ongoing discipline of honest self-evaluation in the presence of another human being — the practice of standing before a concrete person, not an abstraction, and saying what is true about oneself, including and especially the parts one would prefer to conceal. The crucial element is the Other. Bonhoeffer insisted that confession made privately to God, alone with one's own conscience, was insufficient — because the confessant alone can always soften the confession, qualify the admission, make the truth a little less sharp. The presence of another human being, the "hard facticity of the human Other," removes this option. The simulation applies the framework to building: the confessing builder is the one who maintains the discipline in the presence of Others who