But the fact is, to absorb a work of imagination, one has to use his own imagination.

Since this is considered unlikely, pundits earnestly help us with step-down contexts, so that we can understand the work in pedestrian terms. In other words, so we can reduce it to nothing.

However, the work itself resists such translations. Fundamentally, every outcome of great imagination is its own world. It immediately and finally presents itself as a universe apart from easy references and tie-ins and links.