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borrowed them, such as the Gospels or Gary Gilmore���s story. CB: Borrowed stories are embedded in the culture���s legends. Newborn babies are not original, yet each generation values them nonetheless. NM: It���s one thing to take legends and bring them to life, to the best of your ability ��� it���s a high activity and I���m very happy to have done a little of it. But I go back to what I���m saying: my real excitement is when I do it myself, when I���m not dealing with a legend, when I make up the story, as I did in Ancient Evenings and Harlot���s Ghost or The Deer Park and An American Dream. Those novels give me more pleasure, when I think about them, than when I think about The Gospel According to the Son, where the difficult thing was to bring a legend to life. CB: With Ancient Evenings you���re dealing with an Egyptian culture more than a thousand years before Christ. We had lunch at Napi���s a few weeks ago and you were telling me about the research you did for that book at the annex to the New York Public Library, leafing through a huge book depicting the Battle of Kadesh, the first battle recorded in history, recorded in drawings. NM: That book is called the Lepsius Denkenmahler. It was published in Leipzig about 1838, soon after the first major discoveries in Egypt, and the Germans were absolutely wild on the subject. Ancient roots! It gave one a great sense of how they used to print books 150 years ago, as opposed to how they do now. Boy, they printed books in those days. The pages were approximately 30 inches long and maybe 15 inches high, and when you opened it ��� heavy, stiff buckram covers ��� and turned a page, it was like HYLAND 34