aesthete

"It doesn't matter," Taion felt the need to preface. Prefaces were useful, often instrumental. Prefaces were not stumbling disclaimers and crutches; they were simply another form of the appropriate constructions of sentiment.

One makes a preface to organize information, not to discount it. It's just that sometimes the information being organized is the discount.

And Gray organized himself by omission, most often, so perhaps it went to prove...