text:  for the competence of the villains in your story. Meaning, all three of you have a kind of connoisseur's... I mean, there's a reason why Patrick's book, a collection of magazine pieces, is called Rogues, right? Because there's a certain appreciation you have to have for the grifter, for the scam artist, for the unethical stock trader, if you don't look at them with that rigor and care. Um...