Michael Crummey W.W. Norton and Co. Does SWEETLAND by Michael Crummey Infringe the Copyright of THE FISHER KING by Hayley Kelsey? St. John's Newfoundland

Does SWEETLAND by Michael Crummey Infringe the Copyright of THE FISHER KING by Hayley Kelsey? Read on to Decide for Yourself (and see more at https://medium.com/@hayleykelseyauthor)

History:

• The Fisher King was published on April 29, 2011. Just one month earlier, in March 2011, Crummey discussed his next novel and made no mention of the plot or title of Sweetland: Abebooks—“So. What's next for Michael Crummey?” Michael Crummey—(laughs) “I have no idea...Who knows? Maybe anything. Maybe a murder mystery. Set in Iceland. Why not?”—Beth Carswell (http://www.abebooks.com/books/author-interview-river-thieves-galore/michael-crummey.shtml 3/29/11). But Crummey later said he started Sweetland just 10 months later in February 2012: Crummey: “I guess two-and-a-half years ago [in February 2012] I really felt like I had a hold of something when I was writing the book but I didn’t really know what it was.”—Eric Volmers (http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Author+Michael+Crummey+brings+life+into+tale+small+town/10141933/story.html 8/21/14).
• Crummey freely admits to engaging in copyright infringement. Abebooks: “What authors and books have influenced and inspired you?” Michael Crummey: “For this book [Galore] in particular? Definitely One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Also a great book called The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley, which is very similar to Galore in some ways.”—Beth Carswell (http://www.abebooks.com/books/author-interview-river-thieves-galore/michael-crummey.shtml 3/29/11). Since The Greenlanders was published in 1988 and Galore in 2009, Crummey hubristically has it backwards: Galore is “very similar” to (i.e., infringes?) The Greenlanders, according to many published reviews. Is Crummey a serial copyright infringer?
• On December 13, 2011, I submitted a query letter, synopsis, and first 50 pages of The Fisher King to W.W. Norton & Co., which published the alleged infringing titles Sweetland and The Lobster Kings.

• On September 23, 2013 and December 20, 2013, I submitted a query letter, synopsis, and first 50 pages  to Julie Barer at Barer Literary, who represented alleged infringer Michael Crummey in U.S.
• On January 19, 2014, I submitted a query letter, synopsis, and first 50 pages to Anne McDermid & Associates, who represents Crummey in Canada.
• Between May 7-21, 2011, I gave away 25 e-copies of The Fisher King on Goodreads and LibraryThing in exchange for reviews—4 were downloaded in Canada, where Crummey lives. Crummey has been a Goodreads member since March. 
• On July 6, 2013, I gave away over 650 e-copies in an Amazon KDP Free Book Promotion—2 were dowloaded and 1 was sold in Canada. 
• Between May-June 2014, 5 copies were sold in Canada.
• Sweetland was published on August 19, 2014 in Canada and on January 19, 2015 in the U.S. by W.W. Norton.

Does SWEETLAND Have Striking and Substantial Similarities to THE FISHER KING?

• Nearly identical main characters’ “royal” names: In The Fisher King: King, Regina. In Sweetland: Duke, Queenie.
• Nearly identical use of myth in main characters’ names and roles: In The Fisher King, King’s name and character are symbolic of his role as the The Fisher King king in the Holy Grail myth; Gail’s name and character are symbolic of her role as the grail knight in Arthurian legend. In Sweetland, Moses’s name and character are symbolic of his role as the prophet in the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
• Nearly identical use of characters’ nicknames: In The Fisher King, King is called Your Majesty. In Sweetland, Moses is called Your Highness, Your Worship, and the King’s Seat.
• Similar use of characters’ nicknames: In The Fisher King: Sonny is named for role in family. In Sweetland, Moses is named for role in community.
• Nearly identical opening plot device: In The Fisher King, Gail wants to accept government buyout but Sonny stubbornly resists change, waffles, backs out, and remains on island. King resists change and government intervention, procrastinates despite community pressure. In Sweetland, islanders want accept government buyout but Moses stubbornly resists change, government intervention, procrastinates despite community pressure, backs out, and remains on island.
• In The Fisher King, overfishing and fish moratoriums resulted in loss of income, putting islanders out of work and making them vulnerable to government buyout/relocation plan. The conflicting goals of islanders and government split the family and community until all residents abandon the island. In Sweetland, overfishing and fish moratoriums resulted in loss of income, putting islanders out of work and making them vulnerable to government buyout/relocation plan. The conflicting goals of islanders and government split the family and community until all residents abandon the island.
• In The Fisher King, generations of Kingsley family have lived and fished on island for over 200 years. In Sweetland, generations of Swietlund family have lived and fished on island for 200 years.
• In The Fisher King, two brothers left island for college on mainland years earlier and return while one remained behind to work the bay with father. In Sweetland, two brothers left island for work or college on mainland years earlier and return.
• In The Fisher King, venture capitalists want to buy up island and turn it into a fishing theme park to rake in tourist dollars. In Sweetland, two brothers want to buy up island and turn it into a fishing theme park to rake in tourist dollars.
• In The Fisher King, mother Arlene may have had affairs to begat son Wes; daughter Gail perpetuates generational illegitimacy by having affairs and becomes pregnant at end. Arlene keeps Wes’s paternity a secret and Gail keeps her pregnancy a secret from husband. In Sweetland, sister Ruthie had affair with Reverend, begat daughter Carla, who perpetuates generational illegitimacy by having affair, begat son Jesse. Ruthie, Reverend, and Carla keeps Jesse’s paternity a secret.
• In The Fisher King, Wes is dreamy, sickly, unsuited to farming, presumed family business heir, dies suddenly in farming accident. In Sweetland, Jesse is dreamy, pale, lank, unsuited to fishing, presumed family genetic heir, dies suddenly in boating accident.
• In The Fisher King, Gail’s unresolved guilt over her role in brother Wes’s death determines her actions for husband. In Sweetland, Moses’s unresolved guilt over his role in brother Hollis’s death in fishing accident determines his actions for Jesse.
• In The Fisher King, guilt-stricken Gail blames self for her role in younger brother Wes’s death, attempts to atone for it by remaining on island. In Sweetland, guilt-stricken Moses blames self for his role in Jesse’s death, attempts to atone for it by remaining on island.
• In The Fisher King, Gail’s mother watched soap operas daily, read romance novels voraciously. In Sweetland, Moses’s mother watched soap operas daily, read romance novels voraciously.
• In The Fisher King, Gail is severely isolated, lonely, loses touch with time, reality. In Sweetland, Moses is severely isolated, lonely, loses touch with time, reality. 
• In The Fisher King, King builds small shed from salvaged wood on the far end of the island, secluded from view, where Gail lives. In Sweetland, Moses builds ten-by-ten shed from salvaged wood on the far side of the island where he lives.
• In The Fisher King, aging patriarch King falls ill but resists doctors. In Sweetland, aging patriarch Moses falls ill but resists doctors.
• In The Fisher King, three deaths occur, including younger brother and patriarch. In Sweetland, three deaths occur, including younger nephew and patriarch.
• In The Fisher King, Sonny was made sterile by environmental pollution. He is “shooting blanks.” He testicles are referred to as “plums.” In Sweetland, Moses was made sterile by industrial accident. He is “firing blanks.” His testicles are referred to as “fruit.”
• The images, symbols, motifs, and syntax are strikingly similar: In The Fisher King, a continuously burning landfill symbolizes an environmental wasteland. Old cemetery is located near the landfill. In her loneliness, Gail interacts with talk radio. King occasionally lapses into archaic Elizabethan speech of “thee,” “thou,” etc. The brothers pass a flask back and forth. Sonny nervously floods car engine. Tourists from mainland stick their heads into kitchens to nose around. Gail plays dumb in conversation with brothers-in-law. In Sweetland, a continuously burning garbage incinerator symbolizes an environmental wasteland. Old cemetery is located near incinerator. In his loneliness, Moses interacts with talk radio. Locals occasionally lapse into archaic Elizabethan speech of “thee,” “thou,” etc. Two brothers pass a flask back and forth. Moses nervously floods car engine. Tourists stick their heads into kitchens to nose around. Moses plays dumb in conversation with Jesse.
• The basic plots are substantially similar: In The Fisher King, the plot centers around the importance of inheriting and passing on land and fishing grounds. One sibling, Sonny, wants to inherit the fishery/island to carry on ancestral tradition and family name to future son while his two siblings do not. Sonny remains on the island to his detriment. In Sweetland, the plot centers around the importance of inheriting and passing on the island. One sibling, Moses, wants to inherit the island to pass on ancestral island and family name to nephew while his two siblings do not. Moses remains on the island to his detriment. 
• The denouements are nearly identical: The Fisher King ends ambiguously. The father of Gail’s son is left open. King sacrificed for sons’ future all along. Sonny leaves home, freeing himself from family ties, gains independence and maturity. All residents abandon island. Sweetland, ends ambiguously. The father of  great-nephew is left open. Moses sacrifices government payout for nephew’s future. Moses leaves home (through death), freeing himself from family ties. All residents abandon island.
• The themes are identical: In The Fisher King, identity is strongly tied to being watermen/islanders. Traditional commercial fishing is threatened by big business, technology, global commerce, environmental pollution. The characters are trapped by circumstances beyond their control. The importance of inheriting and passing on to the next generation island, family history/name, genes, vanishing way of life, a future. In Sweetland, identity if strongly tied to being islanders/fishermen. Traditional commercial fishing is threatened by big business, technology, global commerce. The characters are trapped by circumstances beyond their control. The importance of inheriting and passing on to the next generation island, family history/name, genes, vanishing way of life, a future.

Does SWEETLAND Have Plot and Theme Similarities to THE FISHER KING?

There are the eight main elements that comprise the “heart” on which The Fisher King turns, and Sweetland takes seven of them:

1. Overfishing—Fishermen’s greed caused them to overfish watershed, putting themselves out of work and forcing them to vacate island through abandonment and death.
2. Work—The importance of work to identity, plan to turn island into business.
3. Setting—The importance of place, specifically island, & historical connection to it, to identity. Both open with government incentive relocation plan to remove islanders.
4. Inheritance—The importance of inheriting and passing on: island, family business, vanishing way of life, genes.
5. Generational illegitimacy—Main female characters have illegitimate pregnancies, births (Moses’s sister and niece).
6. Community—The importance of community to feeling of belonging & sense of purpose.
7. Male infertility—The importance of male fertility to pass on: island, family name, vanishing way of life, genes.

Does SWEETLAND Have Line-by-Line Similarities to THE FISHER KING?

Throughout—“firing blanks,” “burning incinerator,” “open-line radio” NEARLY IDENTICAL TO “shooting blanks,” “burrning landfill,” “talk radio.”

3—He heard them [boat] before he saw them. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 194—I heard the sailboat before I saw it.

9—“Your family and the island have the same name.”  SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 94—Kingston, the only town to speak of [named for Kingsleys]

7—Careful haircuts SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 387—he’d gotten an expensive haircut 438—their fifty-dollar haircuts. 

7—“the [government] package we’re offering” 10—“the government is offering a package to the residents of Sweetland to move...Plus adjustment assistance and help looking for work or retraining or returning to school...We will pay to resettle the residents...There won’t be any ferry service after the move.” SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 11-12—I’d learned of a buyout plan that the federal government had started for watermen—for fishermen around the country, actually—to get more of us off the water...In exchange for handing over our fishing licenses the buyout included a free training course in a new career as part of filing for bankruptcy...It retrains fishermen in the career field of their choice—for free...“Fishermen...can receive, in lieu of a cash settlement, a weekly stipend for the duration of the training” 370—He...refused to take advantage of the bankruptcy package 441—For the first time since it was put in service over fifty years earlier, the ferry between Arster Point and Trappe Island stopped running that winter.

9—[He] “never lived anywhere else.”  SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 14—He had lived on the island and worked on the water his whole life  

9—“People been fishing here two hundred years or more. I expect my crowd was the first ones on the island.”  STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 80—King had inherited the fishing business from his daddy, who’d inherited it from his daddy going back as far as anyone could remember 122—He was a fifth-generation waterman, which meant he could trace his family far back into the 19th century, although he liked to allude to roots that stretched even further back to the Revolutionary War

11—Main character named Queenie SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 24-throughout—Main character named Regina [means “queen”]

14—“I’m King of the World!” 197—I’m the king of the world. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 54—For days I felt like a king, master of my domain.

13-14—one of those soap operas Sweetland’s mother used to watch. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 40—She spent her time watching soap operas 41—the soap operas she watched daily 47—Every day after her “soaps” were over 91—My mother was stretched out on the sofa watching her soaps...Nothing, but nothing, interrupted her soaps 93—“I have my soaps to keep up with.” 347—her preoccupation with soap operas.

14, 37, 127—“Your Highness” 46—“Your Worship” STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 122—Everything about him from his appearance to his temperament had a regal, stately quality 192—“His Majesty to Seapeace. His Majesty to Seapeace” 123—he had placed her on a pedestal … a magisterial air 214—the air of a sovereign.

20—Duke SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 122—Randolph Kingsley was familiarly known by his last name—King for short.

28—blowing farts in his belly to make the boy laugh. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 437—bent to his neck with a loud raspberry, sending them both into hysterics.

30—She was a voracious reader of paint-by-number romances. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 34—Mom would be curled up in a chair with one of her dime-store romances 41—Her favorite subjects were the romance novels she devoured.

33—radio nattering in the background SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 162—[radio] mere background noise 294—I was idly listening to the radio or, more accurately, not listening so much as letting the hum of voices serve as company 360—I reached over and switched on the radio.

35—The island...barren and solitary. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 94—the island was utterly silent, empty 98—informally it was known as Barren Isle 101—Barren Isle lay before us...Barren Isle was sinking 153—On the other side of the curled spit north of Shad Strait lay Barren Isle 427—Over Barren Isle the wind abruptly died 

41—Cut from the same cloth IDENTICAL TO 432—they were cut from the same cloth.

45—Batten down the hatches IDENTICAL TO 298—batten down the hatches.

46—him for being so goddam stubborn SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 13—he said, stubbornly 68—he clung to them stubbornly 140—but year after year he stubbornly refused 183—his stubborn refusal 232—stubbornly refusing to give him his full attention, but also stubbornly refusing to leave. 

48—“You thinks this will all go away if you ignores it long enough...But it won’t.”  STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 8—Each year the [fisheries] report was full of nothing but bad news and doomsday predictions—so watermen ignored them 159—All summer King had procrastinated on the issues and put off facing them 280—“King...he’s waffling.” 304—“We’ve had enough of your waffling!” Smitty shouted back.

51—listening to the open-line show on the portable radio above the workbench, passing a comment on one issue or another. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 160—transistor radio propped up against the screen 161—Now, I mostly listened to talk radio…I became caught up in their feverish debates about abortion, gay marriage, school prayer. I found myself responding to the callers, talking out loud, arguing for one side or another.

55—They built a ten-by-ten shed...on the far side of Sweetland. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 151—the shed was nearly invisible from land and sea 151—[they built] a new shed tucked behind the cove on Shad Strait. 

55—feral cats in an abandoned barn. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 420—feral barn cats 

57-58—He refrained from all forms of labour on Sunday...the shed to putter at the dozen odd jobs that were only halfways done. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 22—The next day was Sunday...It was the only day of the week that, as King put it, “the lord and the law” prohibited working 211—But even if it had allowed watermen to work on Sundays, the church did not…King…disappear…we’d find him out in the tool shed repairing crab pots or nets 253—he had vowed to…accomplish all the tasks that accumulated during the season but never got done. He was going to clean up the tool shed.

61—the internet. The web was like the ocean, Sweetland thought, there was no telling what lived in the murkiest depths. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 429-430—The information on it would be entered into a computer...From there it would be shared with the college’s student records computer...Who knew where it would travel from there, firing along an endless subterranean network of connecting computer wires?

67-68—“the idea is we buys up the cove after everyone shifts out...And we sell package tours to a vintage Newfoundland outport. It’ll be like one of them Pioneer Villages on the mainland…We could have people out here dressed up in oilskins, take the tourists. fishing...People would pay a fortune for that kind of time...fit him out in a sou’wester, put him on display for the tourists.” STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 211—as if our community were a sort of staged re-enactment of the past...tourists 259—“Whatever happened to the idea of buying up all the lots and turning the whole island into a historical theme park like Williamsburg? Do you know how much that place rakes in per annum?” 438—turn the island into an historical theme park...a “living museum” where docents paraded around in rubberized bib-waders performing “re-enactments” of trotlining for busloads of schoolchildren on field trips.

75—the lowing went on endlessly, a sound so full of helpless misery...haunches quivering. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 42—Night after night I lay awake in bed listening to her [cow] mournful lowing… birth of a calf when her...haunches shuddered uncontrollably.

81—raked his fingers through his hair 2 SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 213—He raked his hands through his hair 261—His hands raked through his hair as he spoke 306—His hands raked his hair 404—His hands raked his hair 406—Don raked his hair again.

86—All the young folk off at jobs...somewhere on the mainland. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 6—pick up temporary jobs on the mainland 118—I put in applications...on the...mainland, but the local kids had beaten me to all the summer jobs

91—she was built for the island, unlike her brother STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 52—I’d always been athletic, robust and strong, but that winter I shot up. Suddenly, I towered over my petite mother and stooped grandfather and drew head-to-head with my father 130—I was as tall as he was my palms nearly as big, my arms nearly as strong. 46—He [brother] grew into a thin, sickly child riddled with allergies and asthma who caught everything that came down the pike...had left his bones brittle and made him physically unsuited to physical labor.   

105—The Priddle [brothers]...handing a flask back and forth between them STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 331—[Brothers] Don reached into...the pockets of his jacket, pulled out a flask...He tilted the bottle towards him. Peter took a long pull and passed it back to Don 332—They passed the flask back and forth again...The flask exchanged hands 333—Don lifted his flask, shook it. He graciously passed it to Peter.

116—He couldn’t begin to guess what time it was. Late, was all he knew. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 231—“What time is it?” I whispered. “I don’t know,” he said. “Late.”

117-118—coming off the ferry runs...[photographers] butting their heads into sheds and kitchens to nose around. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 211—tour boats would dock at the public pier and discharge boatloads of nosy tourists who wandered through our streets and across our lawns…A few were even so bold as to brazenly enter houses 

120—“Are thee done?” STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 94—And their speech, especially the old folks, was peppered with “thee” and “thou” and “ye”...if he were tired or caught up in conversation, I’d occasionally hear King slip and utter a “tis” or “thine”

130—Uncle Clar wanted to take the man...to see a doctor, but his father wouldn’t hear of it. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 235—King eschewed doctors 353—“The last time he saw a doctor was the day he was born...It’s a point of pride with him.” “He’s not a young man anymore...Maybe it’s time he did.” “Never happen...He’ll keel over first” 354—I didn’t delude myself for a minute that I could convince him to see a doctor 383—But he continued to maintain that there was nothing wrong with him and refused to see a doctor. 

136—as the day’s light came up on the world SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 143—Then the sun waked the world. 

142—Thought you was going to be firing blanks your whole life. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 52—“He’s shooting blanks.” 347—“Sonny’s shooting blanks.”

183-184—It never struck him, the strangeness of that archaic word. Thee...A petrified holdout from another age. He’d known a handful of elderly Sweetlanders who made use of it when he was a youngster, as if it was something a person grew into as they aged STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 227—“What would thee make of it?” 94—And their speech, especially the old folks, was peppered with “thee” and “thou” and “ye” delivered in what I recognized from reading Shakespeare in English class were Elizabethan cadences, but without a trace of self-consciousness. They sounded, in fact, like foreigners who were not just from another country, but another time. Years later, if he were tired or caught up in conversation, I’d occasionally hear King slip and utter a “tis” or “thine,” too.

195-196—radio...He missed the comforting chatter when he was...working in the shed during the day, the background voices giving the weather or arguing the import of some political upheaval half a world away. He’d never stay inside without that company. Even when he worked at the lighthouse he carried a radio wherever he went, setting it near a window to lessen the static. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 161—I had to content myself with a transistor radio...[Working in shed] I missed the camaraderie, the sense of belonging that came from the steady stream of chatter in voices that, periodically disrupted by tangled snarls of static...Always the talk was of the weather 162—mere background noise...Now, I mostly listened to talk radio. I was hungry for the company, for the sound of a human voice...I became caught up in their feverish debates about abortion, gay marriage, school prayer. 294—I was idly listening to the radio or, more accurately, not listening so much as letting the hum of voices serve as company        

205—Newspapers was as much as he’d read in his adult lifetime...He’d never cracked the cover of a book. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 433—Since high school the only books I’d cracked were fisheries reports.

227—I’m some disappointed in the both of them, he heard his mother say. Not one grandchild. 156—she’s working up to the question of grandchildren SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 157—Her and King wondering aloud why they didn’t have grandchildren to bounce on their knees and his conviction that it was my fault 343—“They’re always passing around snapshots and telling stories of their grandchildren.”

228—The day she died his mother woke occasionally to look around herself, dropping off again without seeing anything. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 425—he drifted in and out of sleep throughout the day, letting his eyelids fall for brief, restful slumbers only to open them bewildered by where he was...King woke or, more accurately, half-woke...His unseeing eyes

238—It was Sweetland’s job to remain ignorant in those ritual exchanges, to offer inane questions and commentary...while the youngster tried to sink his objections under the weight of pure knowledge. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 107— I understood that I was meant to be quiet and listen. Asking questions was all right, the more ignorant the better, because they gave him a chance to parade his knowledge.

 260—talking back to the [radio] announcers STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 162—Now, I mostly listened to talk radio. I found myself responding to the callers, talking out loud, arguing for one side or another.  

260—Time drifted and bowed in much the same fashion...the days blurring into one another. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 299—With no change to mark the days they blended into one another

262—He didn’t want to flood it...When it finally took hold it roared...Sweetland kept it alive with the accelerator and he let it idle. SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 182—to start it again, but it refused to catch. He tried a few more times and the grinding of the engine as it struggled to turn over...“You’re going to stall the engine.” “I’m not going to stall it,”...His foot slammed down on the accelerator. He hunched over and twisted the key hard. For an interminable minute, we listened to the motor wind slowly down. Sonny stomped the pedal several times in quick succession, and it suddenly caught.

269—He...suffering a long fit of claustrophobia in the tiny SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 210—the room felt claustrophobic 279—I was suddenly aware of the tiny space.

270—testicles were...two bald fruit in their wild nest of fur. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 68—[his testicles]…flesh like plums ripening in my hands 247—Their purplish hue and smooth skin always reminded me of plums...His p***s lay curled in his dark thatch of hair.

277—had heard them talking about it for years on the Fisheries Broadcast—apocalyptic weather, rising sea levels, alterations in the seasons, in ocean temperature. Fish migrating north in search of colder water   SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 15—The International Fisheries Market Report 102—the rising tide table 159—raising the water table 287—as oceans rise 286—[fish spawn] much farther north, where the water would be…colder 286—males [fish] were...heading north in search of fresher water. 

288—make the recovery of [Moses’s] fertility unlikely STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 296—Sonny’s infertility 348—What made him guess at Sonny infertility? 290—Sonny with his infertility 355—Sonny’s sterility 241—there’s been a rise in infertility rates among young men 242—“interferes with testosterone production in males, leading to, well, infertility.”

307—“We’re splitting hairs now” SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO 406—“let’s not waste time splitting semantic hairs.”

316—shaky. His handwriting. STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO 430—in shaky, nearly unrecognizable handwriting