I think my interest in information was, sort of like, inbred in the sense that I was fortunate when I was a child to live across the street from a branch of the New York Public Library. And, my first experience with title scanning was in the library where I used to go in, in the forbidden section which was the adult part of the library, not the children’s section which I rarely visited, I didn’t read too many children’s books when I was a child, and I scanned the title of every book in the library. I still... in my head I can still see some of those books that would come to mind, even though I’d never read them. Anyhow, I...

[Q] Why did you do that?

Don’t ask me. I mean, it was something that... just a curiosity, kind of, a thing, you know, just... I, I remember the title, 40 Days of Musa Dagh always come to mind as one of the things that I saw and Red Badge of Courage, and so forth. I don’t... think that amongst my friends, when I was little, there was nobody that was really interested in, in going to the library. You know, other kids were, you know, playing baseball and, we’d spend the... every, every night at 10, 10 o’clock, or 10.30 on the corner, unlike most of the kids who were home, I would be out there on the corner discussing the results of the baseball games that took place. Every kid in New York, of course, knows, is mathematically inclined because he’s got to know the statistics of the game, of the players and everything. It’s amazing how much kids know about the, the statistics of baseball.