'...Besides, he added, my constant talk about "unnameable" and "unmentionable" things was a very puerile device, quite in keeping with my low standing as an author. I was too fond of ending my stories with sights or sounds which paralyzed my heroes' faculties and left them without courage, words, or associations to tell what they had experienced. We know things, he said, only through our five senses or our religious intuitions; wherefore it is quite impossible to refer to any object or spectacle which cannot be clearly depicted by the solid definitions of fact or the correct doctrines of theology - preferably those of the Congregationalists, with whatever modifications tradition and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may supply.'
- From 'The Unnameable' (ref courtesy HarCur)