"I wasn't trying to kill it when I was surrounding it, you know," Joshua sai
d. "I was just trying to check something. I was seeing if I could control it
 like we control the frogs back home."
Van Doren stared at me for a few seconds, then buckled himself in, almost as
 an afterthought. "I think I was right," he said. "You are completely off yo
ur rocker."
"I did," I said. "It's very good." Actually, it wasn't just good, it was ast
onishingly good. And written by a 23-year-old film student. Reading it, I ha
d made the mental note to myself to get him to hire me as his agent, or stea
l him away from whichever one he currently had.
"Oh, I think you'll be able to afford it," I said. "You can have the rights 
to excerpt any of Krysztof's writing at no cost."