“The Intuitionist” by Colson Whitehead (post 2): “Everyone has their own set of genies.” Who are the author’s “genies”?

I have just visited the author’s website to see what he says about his first novel, The Intuitionist. Visit colsonwhitehead.com, click on Books, then click on The Intuitionist. The text you find there may have been written by his publisher, but I assume that Whitehead agrees with what people read about his own books when they visit his own website.

It says in part, “…Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.” There is no mention of the elaborate, blatant synesthesia I quoted in post 1. Apparently, neither the author nor his editor recognized the synesthesia, per se; or, at least, they thought it was not, in itself, important.

In any case, I now see that I had been distracted by the synesthesia, which is not the main issue here.

Of relevance here is the following sentence in the passage I quoted in post 1: “Everyone has their own set of genies.” What does he mean by “genies”? He may mean that everyone (which would include the author) has their own style of magical thinking that comes from their own set of magical people (alternate personalities).

And it may be that Whitehead likes to call what he gets from his genies or alternate personalities, his intuition, which would make him an “intuitionist.”

Added Sept 18: In short, his genies are alternate personalities, he has multiple personality trait, and he thinks everyone else does, too; although, apparently, he does not think of it in terms of multiple personality.