 Yes, he was, and luckily we don't have to use allegory to analyze where we are today and where we're hoping to get to. And it made me think while I was listening to this, he's obviously a great author. I can think of the Palace of Dreams and the way he used allegory there when the young clerk is putting all the dreams in one place in order to predict what is going to happen to the sultan. It made me think of two...