text:  and this is kind of a gray area, and obviously these legal folks will kind of argue all of this stuff, but there are two sides to this. I mean, if you think about it, let's say I wrote a book, and I read all of the classics, you know, all the Moby Dicks of the world, and all of the different things that people can read, and then I came up with my own book. Do you think that book would be influenced by the stuff that I read as a child or as a teen in my influential years? Probably.