 So we know you can read in a lot of different languages, and we know you read a lot of books. Close. What are three other things about yourself? You might want to tell us. I don't know what... Ice sculpture, perhaps? Well, the ice sculpture. Did I mention it? You can't mention it? You're a big fan of doing ice sculpture? I am. I find the... So basically, when there's a lot of snow out, I won't just build a snowman, but I will try to sculpt as much as I can out of the snow. And I enjoy doing that because the snow is always different, the conditions are always different. What you can make out of it is different. And it's also completely transitory. It's gone usually in a short time, sometimes a few weeks or month. And it's sort of the Andy Goldworthy sculptures in nature taken to the more extreme because the snow is obviously really very short-lasting. And it also shapeshifts as it collapses, as it falls apart. And you were born in Grotz Austria, right? I was, yes. And you have a background in law? Is that correct? I do. I have a degree in law. I'm a New York State lawyer. And you were put off by the academic nature of formal literary study because it involved so little reading of books and too much theory? Very much so. Yes, I was disappointed that at university, basically you could study literature without reading, basically, without reading fiction, especially. And more importantly, without really engaging in fiction, I think. Literature can lend itself to theory. You can build theory around it, but I don't find that a useful way of dealing with literature.