…civilizations and alien intelligences and forms of organization, half machine, half biology, and who knows what else, and, you know, Olaf Stapleton type stuff. It's out there. And we encounter it in the imagination. Now, much of it is completely inappropriate…

…and span. Dennis was alternately calm or into long harangs on a supracosmic scale a la the star maker of Olaf Stapleton. He imitated, personified described and otherwise invoked immense gnostic and manichean entities that were struggling on a cosmic scale,…