Hold on—there’s Excalibur, if I can find Le Morte Darthur again.” “I’m not going to attack a spectral dog with a medieval sword, Charley! They shoot it in the original story, don’t they? If you must bring something out from the pages of a book, don’t you have books with guns?” “It’s not that simple,” he said. “It has to be—I don’t know, it would have to be an important gun, one with meaning and context. I can’t just reach in and pull out a hot dog because the protagonist eats one on page twenty-six.”
