Like Genji, Michinaga was self-absorbed and didn't even notice. When Genji's women were posessed by evil spirits and spoke their rages, Genji thought they had succumbed to a woman's worst failing - jealousy. Michinaga and Genji both thought of themselves as objects of women's envy. Neither considered the fact that women really have no other way of escaping the afflictions brought upon them by men unless they die or become nuns. But my other readers understood. When my characters spoke with the voices of demons or wandering spirits, any woman who had lived at court knew the demons spoke what ladies themselves dared not say.