“So all these writers, I think — and I call them traumatized authors — they’ve all undergone severe trauma of one kind or another. They have to write their own explanation and, strangely, but pretty consistently, they cannot do it by writing realistic fiction; they have to write something which is in some way or another fantastic.”
~ Tom Shippey, author of J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

One more mind was dragged through hell and turned around and looked back and was going to make sense of it one way or another.