To the kidnappers: a desperate plea for us, as artists, to release the inner child...bring the boy out!

This is not psychobabble.

Charles Baudelaire put it this way: "Genius is childhood recovered at will, a childhood gifted now, for self-expression, with the tools of adulthood." (Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils...)