[rendall]

Evidently.

These two things can be true at once: Intelligent good people with good taste and good will find an author's writing compelling, interesting and valuable. Simultaneously, other intelligent good people with good taste and good will do not. It happens. Neither are wrong.

[kragen]

Yes, that is a thing that has sometimes happened, though not in this case.

[rendall]

Ah, I see. If anyone doesn't appreciate his work sufficiently, they are not only wrong, but probably stupid or crazy if not outright evil.