Every author hopes for an appreciative reader, and occasionally an author is fortunate enough to have his or her work reviewed. Sometimes a review reflects and enunciates the author's original intent, sometimes a review will disagree and provide an alternative, constructive perspective, and very occasionally a review will entirely misrepresent what the author says.

In his review, John Fiscalini not only understood the intent of my book, he actually builds on and incorporates its ideas into his own innovative discussion. An author could hardly ask for a more perceptive reading. Hartman's review quite obviously belongs to a different category. It