""My readers showed me with their questions and comments that my ideas really were alarmingly alien. The way I think about things, it seems, evolved in such a way that just doesn't match the way most people think about things. I don't know how it happened. It took me years to realize that it even had happened. For the past four or five years I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to produce a meaningful answer to the question 'How do I arrive at the strange, unexpected answers to the questions people ask me?'