This is actually fairly good feedback. You more or less echoed my own apprehensions about this project. Be that as it may, I stand by my work, only because of the tremendous spiritual ordeal I had to surmount in order to produce this work, coupled with the felt need to do so, which had haunted me for years. I believe that readers who take their time to appreciate GRAND for what it is will also be transformed; your qualms are no different, in essence, from my own frustrations with its development. I know that my (approach to) work makes matters difficult for both myself and others. Yet I feel that it is rewarding for the sort of mind that enjoys literature and derives its life from books. Having mastered at least one dimension of this medium, I feel more flexible in my aspirations to entertain as well as I educate. Your review was very fair. All I needed was to be heard and to know that the message was received.
[({L.J.)}]