:23:03
-What?
-What they don't understand.
:23:06
When we don't understand,
we turn to our assumptions.
:23:11
Crawford cannot understand...
:23:12
...how a black kid from the Bronx
can write the way you do.
:23:16
So he assumes you can't.
:23:20
Just like l assume he's an asshole.
:23:23
You knew him, didn't you?
:23:25
Crawford?
:23:26
No.
:23:29
But he thought he knew me.
:23:30
So what's all this stuff
about his book?
:23:33
A lot of writers know
the rules about writing...
:23:37
-...but don't know how to write.
-So?
:23:39
So Crawford wrote a book
about four authors who did know.
:23:43
And l was the only one still alive.
:23:46
-And?
-He convinced a publisher to buy it.
:23:50
So l made a polite telephone call...
:23:54
...to this publisher,
telling him and others...
:23:57
...that l was in the process
of writing a second book.
:24:01
And if they wished to bid on it--
:24:03
Oh, so that's why
Crawford's book went away.
:24:07
But you knew there wouldn't
be a second book.
:24:10
Yeah, but they didn't.
:24:17
lnteresting what happens when
the resources aren't close at hand.