text:  So at first, I actually thought I was going to do it as a long series, you know. And then you just said, no, I can never do this as a series. It has to be a book. So I, at that time, knew only one editor in the entire world, in the book world. So I wrote him a letter, and I got what I call the world's smallest advance to do a biography of Robert Moses. Enough time has elapsed. So who was the editor, and what was the advance? I...