As I've said, I've been reading this book and am almost done.
Sure, you can read what you want in what Ratliff writes, but as this point in my jazz life, I'd like to learn some reality, some substance, and bypass intellectual bullshit.
Regarding Coltrane saying he wanted to be a saint in 10 years... he was saying he wanted to be pure in thoughts and actions not that he wanted to be deified.