And as I said the scales
fell off from my eyes; I read every chapter with enormous fascination and I was also fascinated by the fact, this was Martin's second
edition, and in his preface to it, he said that when the first
edition it come out he was inundated by letters from enthusiastic people who said to him that they loved every chapter of his book except for one, and they would always pick [out] the ones that, their
favorite crackpot belief system was being attacked, and then they would say they were so happy to see all the others destroyed.