I don't think I am revealing any profound secret by noting that sales has always been a rather distant emblem for quality. - Samuel R. Delany

But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world.

Yes, I learned about monsters on that trip. And I learned about them in these encounters afterward:
First, monsters are real.
Second, they are us.

Content, of course, must have some form. And form, of course, creates its content/commentary. This is why their chimeras have chased each other through moment after moment of history, the intense perception of one or the other producing the overwhelming effect: Art.