Dear Ewan,

Congratulations! Even if you could not get the Critic’s Prize for Star Man Arrives at least you have the satisfaction of being the People’s Choice. And the prize money is the same so your Christmas is not ruined!

I understand your anxieties about collaborating with me. It is not the way you or I, both control freaks, ever work. Of course Star Man is your idea and I don’t want to appropriate it but rather to see how we might, through art as writing, and other forms of collaboration, take one idea and transform it. Hmmm… that does sound like appropriation.

IP