you know, there's a station called taddington station -- paddington station in london, the paddington bear. the 450 from paddington, i mean, it's a famous location. and i was sitting in this french cafÉ called paul with my literary agent, this irish guy ivan mulcahy, and we are talking about this and that. and be suddenly we look -- and suddenly we looked at each other and said, 20, that's a bit boring, suspect it? so we start -- isn't it? so we started playing with the numbers. and i said, look, i could probably write 30 things, 32 things or whatever, but that will make the book too big, so why don't we start at 25, yeah? and then we thought 25 is a bit obvious. [laughter] i told him, i don't like even numbers. [laughter] 21, well, too close to 20, huh? so that left 23, and the title was born. [laughter] now -- yeah, i know, that sounds a bit bizarre, doesn't it? sounds a bit like a sketch in monty python maybe. actually, in a way the story that, you know, i tell you this story because i didn't know a representative of the spirit with which the book was written. my american publisher