Our food comes. Between bites, Black continues talking about Shelley. I bite into my burger. I tell Black that I think Percy ruined Mary Shelley's manuscript by editing it. He added all this purple prose, but her original 'Frankenstein' was really lean.
Fiction needs logic.
If you invented the story of O.J. before the trial, it wouldn't have sold. No one would believe it. I hold up his book. He assures me that he did. I already had the trials' whole built-in drama.