Magnum and Higgins in “Paper War”

Is there anybody you haven't known, or anything you haven't done?

You're calling me a liar again.

I'm calling you an exaggerator. Your memoirs read like a bad novel. Not that it's bad writing. No, it's kind of exciting ... very imaginative, very professional; not like that cheap pulp that Robin writes.

How dare you!

I was just quoting you. You're the one that's always saying that Robin's writing is cheap.

I never said cheap! It's just not serious writing. That's the only real difference between the memoirs and the novels.

"The" memoirs? "The" novels?

I was using the article the to compare the works rather than the writers.

Sure. Just how much writing have you done, Higgins?