“I have to write them up, before anything else. Which will take weeks. I wish I had a slave to do all my transcribing. Maybe not a slave. An indentured servant.”

“What’s this book going to be, then? A thriller?”

“More of a mystery. I wanted to see what men were like with no women around.”

“But you were around.”

“Yes, it was a bit flawed. Schrödinger’s offshore worker.”

“Is it going to be dead racy? Like Fifty Shades of Grey?”

“I hope not. Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?”

“My bird has.”

“Figures.”

“You got a name for it?”

“Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.”

“Bit harsh.”

“Sorry. Bad joke. That one’s taken, anyway.”