text:  It's a real joy in Kevin's books, and I just want to know how he manages to do this. Thank you for the compliment. I'm not quite sure. I think maybe it's because of the tone. This is satire, and I am poking fun at these people and all the endless name-dropping. So I feel like the reader's in on the joke. The reader doesn't feel excluded. The reader feels included, or at least that's...