Yes, in a way I have.
It’s not that Rin Tin Tin had disappeared but he’s been dormant. Not to aggrandize myself but I think that I’m telling the story and there are a lot of people who either have no memory of him or only the faintest memory of him and they are now going to be brought along yet again and he’s sort of proven, once again, that just at the point where you could pretty much have written off the thought of Rin Tin Tin as an ongoing character, he’s back.
Which is great, hilarious. I have this tendancy to discover, midway through my books, that wittingly or unwittingly I’ve kind of become this character – unwittingly in this case – and I’m wondering, gee, is Rin Tin Tin still alive?
And, as I’m spending 10 years writing the book, I’m making the argument that there was still something remarkable about the fact that this story has endured. There is something marvelous and I have to say this kind of dawned on me only at the end of the book and that was very much what the end of the book was, was this sort of realization that, we have proven Lee’s hypothesis that there will always be a Rin Tin Tin.
