In the same way, readers put up with unintelligibility, obsessiveness, painful truths, lies, bad grammar—if, in compensation, the writers allows them to savor rare emotions and dangerous sensations.
And if you savor the competition of a staring contest, don't lock eyes with the stonefish, they're no angel fish and you barracuda get hurt if its piercing gaze comes trout and you're not with the safe grouper.