I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

I write - and then I write some more.

He was interested in a project with an electronic pulse,

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.