the children know who leaf ericson is. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm a very, very huge fan of all of your works. the first book was given to me by my mother, professor and the madman and i red it -- read it literally in two days. what my question is, do you agree historical text and what have you and you just find interesting stories that have not been fully explored or do youju just say, oh, this might interesting to write about? o do you have a little file cabinet and say, oh, i'm going to --he this is what i'm going write my next book about? w >> i mean, to give you an example. one from the past and one from the future. the professor and the madman was a well-known story and i came across it when i was reading book by a man called jonathan green called chasing the sun dictionaries and the man who made it and there was a tiny footnote lexographers would be familiar with the story of w.c. miner who was a murderer who was a prolific writer in the led and he was reading it in the bath and i sat up and said, i just don't