In response to Herbert's Dune
The value of thoughts beyond words
lies in their ability to stimulate
the 'sense of truth' when alluded to.
Thus an author's craft is not
to explain his innermost understanding
so much as to allude to it consistently
during his discourse on more tangible matters.
Gallagher
21 april 75
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —