It is both, Neil, and it's also pure DB principles.
Puppy
what exactly do you mean puppy? both a pattern and a script?
Yes. The pattern of "when you pursue, they pull back, and when you pull back, they pursue" is straight out of MWD's teachings, and really, straight out of human nature itself.
And it's also "script" in affairs. Personally, as a classic "Nice Guy" myself, I still find it kinda sad, and have a bone to pick with the Man Upstairs someday when I get there, but I do think it's true!