The relationship between writer and reader is nicely illustrated by Fernando Krahn's cartoon in which a boa swallows a giraffe. The giraffe is like a writer's story, and the snake like the reader. Having consumed the giraffe, the boa-reader takes on the shape of a dinosaur the symbolizes a new thought, idea, impression. It may be slightly deformed, missing the point of the author, but it is the reader's own creation. From introduction