"Oh, well. But. But I suppose you could take the tone—not the person but the personality—like poetry. Poetry is a shotgun aimed at our shared experience, hoping to hit enough of the target that we all infer a great bulk of information conveyed as implication and metaphor in an approximately similar way. Making a unity between poet and reader." Accompanying hand gesture. "I always wanted to take a connectome image of a group of subjects before and after reading a poem. Or better, keep them in isolation and give them perfectly similar experiences for a week and then make them read a novel. See how much it changed ’em. Would it matter if it was a good novel? How long did the change last? Was the book permanently incorporated into the connectome or was it just a stone in a pond, all splash and ripples and then gone a moment later into the everyday duckshit that rules us all?" She snorts.