 An author you're a big advocate of, Arno Schmidt, right? Yes. You've written a book on him, it's the book here. His masterwork is coming out in English, actually translated for the first time this September. Is that correct? Yes, yes. And the German title is Settles Traum. What's the English title? His Bottom's Dream. Bottom's Dream. And most people have never heard of Arno Schmidt. Regrettably, no. But we have a chance now to read his masterwork. Some of his others are in English already. Tell us why we should care. Well, the Bottom's Dream. I don't know how many people will actually read that. That is a very complicated piece of work. Arno Schmidt is a faster book. And you love it, right? You've written a book on Schmidt. I do. But again, it's on Schmidt as a whole. And Schmidt has written in several different categories. So he's also written short novels and stories which are much more accessible. But you giggled when you read Bottom's Dream, right? Yes. You giggled a lot. Well, the English edition, I think, is just under 1,500 pages. It's going to be a bit compared to Dream of the Red Chamber, right? It's going to be about this big. And it's written in three columns per page. So this is the main story. And then you have the commentary and not quite the footnotes, but sort of the elaborations on the side. But talk us into the work now. Well, it's a work. It covers a seven-day span. And basically, it's a story of translation. It's basically some translators come to an expert on Poe and ask his advice about translating Poe. As the title Bottom's Dream also suggests, there's a Shakespearean aspect to it as well. And I don't even know if it's Schmidt's greatest work. It's in some ways because it is such a, you know, beyond anything almost anyone else has ever tried to write. It's an immense accomplishment. It's not the first Schmidt work you want to read. And what's the first Schmidt work you want to read? Well, if you eventually want to read Bottom's Dream, then The School for Atheists is the one to read. And that's in English now? That's being English now. Interestingly, the person who translated all these books is John E. Woods, who is famous for his translations of Thomas Mann. He did the definitive Magic Mountain and Boon Volks. But he's always been translating Arno Schmidt for decades now. And he likes the translations. Yes, and Schmidt, again, is one of these writers who you really... It's difficult to translate him just literally. In the case of Bottom's Dream and The School for Atheists, which he called them as typoscript books because they were written on larger than normal pieces of paper and allowed not just writing line by line as we're used to, but the playing with the text. And so, for example, one of his favorite things to do was with words where you can change the beginning of the word. So you have both school bus and school child, and so you would have school as one word, and then bus and child on top of each other so you could have both meanings of the word. But he would take this to the nth degree. And so Bottom's Dream and also The School for Atheists allow for incredible literary play. And Schmidt is also, I mean, I read a fair amount. I read probably more than most people. Probably. Arno Schmidt is an order or two above me as a reader. Really, that is, he wrote a lot, but basically he's one of the great readers of all times. And one of the reasons I also appreciate him so much is because he's directed me to so much more reading. And there are a couple of others. So he's like you. Perhaps. And you're like him. Right. Well, I'm some level. Yes, yes.