Let me assure you that I have long understood that you do not want to commit intellectual suicide by using many unprotected words in the open, all of which can in deed be used against you. There is a good bit of safety in fiction, isn't there?

I've been wondering why I like writing fiction. All this time, it was just fear of committing intellectual suicide. Heh.

Who is the fool, who is the wise one?

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt
Abraham Lincoln