“…this is clearly a writer who has never even bothered to read The Book, and yet The Book has had such a pervasive influence on the collective unconsciousness of everyone else around her that she couldn’t entirely escape The Book’s effect, in her development.

The Book’s unmistakable influence appears in this author’s original storytelling. Everyone thinks she’s read The Book, perhaps they even think that she has made a thinly veiled attempt to plagiarize some of it, because the parallels between The Book and her own writing seem so obvious.

And yet she hasn’t read The Book.

The alternative explanation is that her source of inspiration is somehow older than The Book itself – that they share a common ancestor – or the ecological niche she is trying to fill with her writing is similar to the one that lead to the creation of The Book.

In any case, as she writes, she is like an oblivious youngster who doesn’t know anything, imitating what she sees in the people around her in order to blend in, inadvertently sending signals that she does not understand.

Protect her at all costs, as she may yet turn out to be good at this.”