This means of expression makes any attempt to summarize those ideas a dubios business. As with poetry, which in the broad, poiesis (making) sense is what is involved, the message here is so deeply sunk in the medium that characteristic crimes of exegesis: seeing more in things than is really there, and reducing a richness of particular meaning to a drab parade of generalities
But whatever the difficulties and dangers, the exegetical task must be undertaken if one wants to be left with more than the mere fascinated wonderment like a cow looking at a gamelan orchestra, as the Baliness put it-that Helms, for all his responsiveness and powers of description, displays.