i didn't want to tell you about the time when i was in the rockford courthouse and they let me look at the records, and they locked me in the room. yeah, sure. if you don't get all the, you know, nuts and bolts of that or how much it cost for foe to copies in -- photocopies in alabama and when luther strange was attorney general and told me to get the heck out, those did not make it into the book. >> so this issue of true crime, i mean, there's a wonderful section in the book which is about -- and i had not, i confess, i did not know, i didn't fully grasp the chronology. but having written "watchman" in, i think it took two months? >> yeah. if you want to feel bad, i know harper lee has this reputation as a one-hit wonder, i called it mondays with maurice, she showed up every monday with 50 new pages. it was a draft that had to be revised, it didn't go to print, but, yeah, she had this period of tremendous productivity. >> so she does that, and then -- which is kind of a land speed record, and then writes "to kill a mockingbird" and turns the book in. and there's this period of time, y