Donald Davidson A picture is not worth a thousand words, or any other number.
Words are the wrong currency to exchange for a picture.
The only thing worth saying about the author, in my view, is what he has given to be public, all the rest being the generalized personal, which is mere confusion and finally dust. H. Paul Grice Information, like money, is often given without the giver's knowing to just what use the recipient will want to put it. I picked a topic and asked Martina about philosophy. She gave me examples of the sort of the thing philosophers got up to. I also learned a lot about unrepressed wordslinging from young Allen Ginsberg and William Seward Burroughs.