A sagacity quick in picking up analogies and an imagination audacious in the use it makes of them are combined with a capability for enlisting emotions and passions in order to obtain interest for its object—an object that is always veiled in mystery. These emotions are easily mistaken for the efforts of powerful and profound thoughts or at least of deeply significant allusions and they arouse higher expectations than good judgment would find justified. Synonyms are passed off as explanations, allegories are offered as truths. —Immanuel Kant (from O. Sternbach, 1983, p. 403)

I had two grandfathers, Abraham and Isaac and a grandmother named Kate; I'll call them Les Trois. I have no serious doubt that I, in some sense, channel their voices.