Mike puts us into trance, pours language – definitions, idioms, concepts – into us for moments that feel like hours... then we dictate at once what he has poured into us, while it’s still fresh. But it can’t be just anybody. It requires a sharp accent and the ability to join trance rapport and then spill out the results. Sam, for example, has everything but the accent – he manages, God knows how, to speak Martian with a Bronx accent. Can’t use him, it would cause endless errata.