The Snake Handler's a Charlatan

Tisweep was afraid to go up there because she thought people would push her towards the snake and she'd have to touch it. The same thing that happens when you're engaged in some kind of artistic or literary production, if it's all topped down then it's propaganda. What you want is sort of, is put yourself in a receptive state of mind, in an imaginative state of mind. And so he wrote these books, note books that haven't been published yet, called the black books. They are the documentation of his experiments with his imagination....