Rory: Look, thanks for the offer, but I'm here as a journalist. An observer. Journalists do not participate.
Logan: Since when?
Rory: Since forever.
Logan: George Plimpton never participated?
Rory: What?
Logan: His best stuff put him in the think of it. Fighting Sugar Ray Robinson, quarterbacking for the Lions, skating for the Bruins.
Rory: So he participated.
Logan: Bill Buford lived with soccer hooligans in amongst the thugs. Ernie Pyle was so deep in the action in World War II, he was killed by a Japanese sniper, not that you gotta go that far.
Rory: Buford, Pyle. I know.
Logan: Richard Hottelet was four months in a Nazi prison working for the U.P. Hunter Thompson lived with the Hell's Angels. Got in the muck, didn't just orbit around it, and it drove his writing. He put you in those biker's parties. He put you in those biker's heads.
Rory: All right, all right, so, those guys participated. I got it, but I...