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Okay, so I kinda had an epiphany.
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What I realized is that one of my problems
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is that I'm just really resistant
to new things.
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I just say no too often,
which is totally fear.
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So I decided I'm just gonna start
saying yes to stuff.
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So when you needed someone to drive you,
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I just said yes because
maybe I can learn something, you know?
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Anyway. I guess what I'm trying to say is,
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I really think you can help me
with some important life stuff,
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and I really appreciate the opportunity.
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Were you talking to me?
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Yes.
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I'm sorry, dear girl.
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There are certain octaves of the female
voice that I am no longer able to hear.
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I'll take it as a compliment
you knew I was a girl.
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Honestly, I do appreciate the support.
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As you know,
I would not have broken my solitude
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were it not a matter of utmost urgency.
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Yeah, that sounds like some serious shit,
man. Where are we going?
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To the home of an old writer friend.
Well, it's a foe.
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He's an untalented hack
who stole the love of my life.
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We haven't spoken in 40 years,
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and recently he reached out
and begged me to come and see him.
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Says he wants to apologize.
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That's nice.
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-So you guys are gonna make up?
-No.
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I'm gonna fuck his wife.
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Look, I'm not sure
I'm totally comfortable with this.
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Don't worry about it.
I'll be in and out in 15 minutes.
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Yeah, it's not the time that's the issue.
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It's more the part where you're gonna,
like, fuck some guy's wife.
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I'm not literally
gonna have sex with his wife.
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Anne died years ago.
I'm speaking figuratively.
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I've come here to cuckold Peter.
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Emasculate him beyond repair
by flaunting my many successes.
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That's sounds super petty
and unnecessarily convoluted.
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That's what they said about my books.
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That didn't stop me from besting Peter
in that department.
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I'm gonna crush him
beneath the weight of my literary oeuvre.
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And then when the moment is right,
I'm gonna whip it out.
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Do not whip it out.
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Oh, yes. I'm whipping it out
and shoving it right in his face.
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-My Nebula.
-Thank God.
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You can help. Talk me up in there.
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Say nothing of the video games.
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It's looked down upon
in the literary world.
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Focus on my books.
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This isn't what I had in mind.
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Finding answers doesn't always follow
what you had in mind.
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Jump the fuck in. Get weird.
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You might actually learn something.
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Hello. You must be Mr. Longbottom.
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Yes, you're right.
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And you are?
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Magda. It's a pleasure.
Peter is expecting you.
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-Cool house.
-Well, thank you, dear boy.
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I'm a girl.
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Apologies. It was the hair.
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-Peter.
-Carl.
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Hello, old friend.
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It's been a long time.
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Yeah, a long time indeed.
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-You look well.
-I look terrible, but I feel great.
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So happy to see you.
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-Sorry. Hi, yeah. I'm--
-This is my driver.
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Yep. I'm the driver.
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And yet you came in.
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Yes.
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That was an interesting choice.
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-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
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How's everyone doing out here?
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Can I offer you something to drink?
Tea, lemonade?
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Whiskey, neat.
My driver will have the same.
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-It's kinda early.
-Indeed.
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And I'm driving.
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Very professional.
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I hire only the best. I'll have hers.
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Of course.
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She is lovely.
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That's Magda.
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She's been with me a few years.
Don't know what I would do without her.
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Interesting.
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Very interesting.
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Hey. Is this you, C.W.?
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Yes.
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I'm surprised you keep this up here,
old boy.
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Why wouldn't I? It was
one of the greatest times of my life.
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Oh, yes.
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This was when I met Anne.
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Yes.
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And together we made this wonderful brood.
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Ten grandchildren, if you can believe it.
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That's a lot of grandchildren. I have 12.
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-She's one.
-What?
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Your driver is your grandchild?
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Calpurnia. She's my biggest fan.
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-Yes, I am.
-She's also gay.
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Yep.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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The Nebula. This looks familiar.
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This is Anne's, of course.
All of these are.
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She was quite celebrated.
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Peter, on the other hand, well, he was...
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Is "prolific" the right word?
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I suppose you could say that.
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What else can you say
about someone who wrote 19 novellas?
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Nineteen! And all about
the same character, mind you.
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Called The Hammerfall Cycle.
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You wouldn't have heard of them.
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Maybe you'd like to read one?
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Yeah, thank you. That's nice.
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-Start with this one. That's Anne's.
-Okay.
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She was a true genius.
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She was. One of a kind.
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Here you are.
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Why, thank you.
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Well, on to the matter at hand.
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Ladies, would you excuse us, please?
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No need to take more of your time.
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No, I suppose, 40 years is long enough
to wait for an apology.
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I should think so.
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It's hard to know where to begin.
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Whenever you're ready.
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I'm quite ready.
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Yeah, so am I.
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Go ahead.
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Me?
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I'm not apologizing. You are.
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I am not.
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Then why did I drive all the way up here?
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You're going to apologize to me.
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Like hell I am. You reached out to me.
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Said you wanted to set things right.
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-Set things right?
-Yeah.
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Damn it.
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Ginny. My daughter.
Just like her mother. Headstrong.
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She must have set this up.
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And you thought I--
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What on earth
would I have to apologize for?
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For breaking up the tripod.
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You disappeared from our lives, Carl.
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You didn't even come to Anne's funeral.
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She made her choice.
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I see.
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I always suspected that you were jealous.
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Jealous? Of a boob?
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A man so dunderheaded
he was duped by his own progeny? Hardly!
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That's enough of that.
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You can go.
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Not until I get my apology.
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Don't be absurd. What am I meant
to be apologizing to you for?
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I don't know.
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Perhaps for hanging yourself
around Anne's neck like an albatross.
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For poisoning her against me.
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You became an insufferable blowhard
after you won the Nebula.
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Disparaging me at every turn.
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I did no--
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You told Anne
I was a fecund literary slut.
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That was taken out of context.
But I also stand by it.
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You did everything you could
to turn her against me!
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Was I the one
who gave you a face like a fucked ass?
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I presumed that was your mother!
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You son of a bitch!
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Hey! Hey! Hey!
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You've got some nerve coming here.
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As do you, churning out 19 installments
of that Hammerfall dross
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while married to
one of the great writers of our age.
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Anne loved The Hammerfall Cycle.
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-She called them vibrant and electrifying.
-"Electrifying."
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Yes, I've seen the dust jacket note.
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It's the same one on every book.
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I guess I held up the standard.
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Is that the holdup on book 20?
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Can't find anyone to read the damn thing?
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Never wrote the damn thing.
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When I lost Anne, I lost my muse.
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Oh, please. Don't blame her for
your undercooked literary miscarriages.
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What glowing quotes
grace the covers of your books these days?
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I'll have you know
Harper's called my last book
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"unbridled space smut."
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What happened to you, dear boy?
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You began with such promise.
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Tears was...
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a triumph.
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You couldn't finish the trilogy. Why?
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I'm writing it.
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Not that you'd know it, dear boy,
but good writing takes time.
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And what does 42 years
of drinking and whoring around take?
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I won a Nebula Award.
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You can write 10,000 books
and never accomplish that.
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Whereas I could never write another word
for as long as I live,
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but I would still have hard proof
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my very first book was a stroke of genius.
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But the sequel...
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it didn't quite stand up, did it?
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It's a bit limp.
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Who does he think he is?
Tw-- Myself? Not a chance.
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That was intense.
Are you ready to get out of here, Grandpa?
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No. No, no, no. I'm not leaving yet.
I'm gonna fuck his wife.
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I know. Figuratively.
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No, literally. I'm literally
gonna have sex with his new wife.
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-Who are you talking about?
-That Eastern European strumpet.
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I'm gonna take her as my own.
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Magda is his nurse, man.
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Then that changes everything.
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I'm gonna fuck his nurse.
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Good God.
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Is everything okay out here?
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-Yes.
-No.
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-So are you staying for dinner?
-No.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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This chicken is beyond, Magda.
You're a fantastic cook.
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-Oh, no. I'm not--
-No, no, no. Don't be modest.
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It's wonderfully moist.
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Carl, she didn't make the food.
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She's the nurse, remember?
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-Don't back talk me, Cassandra.
-Calpurnia.
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Oh, right.
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I'm confusing her
with my many other grandchildren.
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The Longbottoms
are notoriously robust of seed.
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I'm glad you like the food, Carl.
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It means a lot coming from a man who
knows his way around a rotisserie spit.
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Were you aware that your grandfather
hawked chicken at the state fair?
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It was the Renaissance fair.
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And I was the Grand Roast-Master
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of an award-winning
rotisserie chicken victualler's.
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No wonder you didn't write
any good books for 40 years.
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You were busy basting.
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I've been busy finishing my trilogy.
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Also award-winning.
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-One of them.
-Yes. The books vary.
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You see, some of us don't like
writing the same book 19 times.
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It's called a nonodecology.
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I'm sure it is.
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Speaking of endlessly repeating things,
I'd love a refill.
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Nurse.
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I'll drink as fast as I like, California.
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I think you've had enough.
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I'm just getting started.
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Really?
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'Cause all I see is a man who's finished.
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That's it! I'm going.
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-Well, it's been fun.
-To the bathroom.
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Jackpot.
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Call me a chicken man.
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Well, this chicken man...
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is gonna shit in your desk, daddio.
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So, Calpurnia,
how long have you been a lesbian?
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-I should check on him.
-No need. Here I am.
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What is this?
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I'd like to apologize
for my previous transgressions.
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I'm feeling a bit more myself now.
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I'm not sure that's a relief.
255
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I'll darken your doorway no longer.
256
00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:28,474
Calamari, we're leaving.
257
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Go start the car. I'll be just a minute.
258
00:15:30,764 --> 00:15:31,814
Yes!
259
00:15:32,933 --> 00:15:36,233
Yes, well, thank you for having us,
260
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and for the books.
261
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I will read them both.
262
00:15:38,981 --> 00:15:42,781
And I'm sorry, and yes.
263
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-I'll walk you out.
-You don't have to. It's okay.
264
00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:47,823
-No, please.
-Okay.
265
00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:54,955
Let's not part on bad terms.
266
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The truth is I respect you.
267
00:15:58,709 --> 00:16:01,419
How could I not? You've written 19 books.
268
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That's commendable.
269
00:16:04,047 --> 00:16:07,757
It's an odd number though, 19.
Why not go for 20?
270
00:16:09,761 --> 00:16:12,391
Yes, you stopped writing after Anne died.
271
00:16:13,098 --> 00:16:18,848
You lost your muse.
Or was it... your career?
272
00:16:20,731 --> 00:16:25,571
Annihilation Entire.
The 20th book of the Hammerfall series.
273
00:16:25,652 --> 00:16:27,032
What are you doing with that?
274
00:16:27,112 --> 00:16:29,912
What are you doing with it?
You said you never wrote it!
275
00:16:29,990 --> 00:16:34,410
But there it was in your desk drawer
for anyone to find.
276
00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,834
Why not publish?
277
00:16:36,914 --> 00:16:38,924
-I'm still tinkering with it.
-Liar!
278
00:16:39,583 --> 00:16:41,423
You finished this.
You even copyrighted it.
279
00:16:42,336 --> 00:16:43,546
Give me that!
280
00:16:44,379 --> 00:16:45,759
Give me that!
281
00:16:52,763 --> 00:16:54,433
Careful, old boy.
282
00:16:54,515 --> 00:16:57,015
You're no longer as spry
283
00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,400
as the writer of
Hammerfall 1: The Darkest Hour.
284
00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,400
Peter, pray tell, who published this gem?
285
00:17:04,983 --> 00:17:07,363
Here we go. Random House.
286
00:17:08,028 --> 00:17:10,818
And who was Anne's publisher at that time?
287
00:17:11,990 --> 00:17:14,790
Yes, Random House. What a coincidence.
288
00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:19,747
But then she switched publishers
at one point, didn't she?
289
00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:22,460
And who was the new one?
290
00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:23,792
What was that--
291
00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:26,000
Tor, of course.
292
00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:28,008
And isn't this interesting?
293
00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:33,009
You switched publishers that year.
294
00:17:33,095 --> 00:17:37,845
And who had the good fortune to publish
your newest volume?
295
00:17:39,518 --> 00:17:40,518
Tor. My, my.
296
00:17:41,311 --> 00:17:45,151
In fact, Tor continued to publish
both you and Anne.
297
00:17:45,732 --> 00:17:49,952
Every book,
all the way up until her death. Wow.
298
00:17:50,028 --> 00:17:54,198
Of course, they could no longer continue
publishing Anne at that point.
299
00:17:54,283 --> 00:17:57,123
She was gone.
But why did they stop with you?
300
00:17:57,202 --> 00:17:59,372
I'll tell you why.
301
00:18:00,122 --> 00:18:03,542
Because they only published you
as a favor to her.
302
00:18:05,169 --> 00:18:06,209
The star!
303
00:18:06,295 --> 00:18:09,875
And when she died,
they cut loose the baggage.
304
00:18:13,135 --> 00:18:16,255
You'll never be able to end the saga
305
00:18:16,346 --> 00:18:19,726
because there's no one around
who cares to hear it.
306
00:18:22,144 --> 00:18:24,614
Well, they rejected my last book.
307
00:18:24,688 --> 00:18:26,728
At last we know the truth!
308
00:18:27,691 --> 00:18:30,491
And shame on you
for using your own daughter
309
00:18:30,569 --> 00:18:34,989
to lure me here so you could get me drunk
and make me embarrass myself.
310
00:18:35,073 --> 00:18:37,453
I did no such thing.
311
00:18:37,534 --> 00:18:39,544
Really? Then why did she do it?
312
00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,250
Because I'm dying, you idiot.
313
00:18:46,752 --> 00:18:48,212
What?
314
00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:49,915
I'm dying.
315
00:18:52,299 --> 00:18:55,389
And my daughter's
still young enough to believe...
316
00:18:58,305 --> 00:19:00,425
that closure exists.
317
00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:08,648
Well, it does exist.
318
00:19:11,860 --> 00:19:13,700
Just not for you.
319
00:19:17,574 --> 00:19:20,494
And by the way, the chicken was dry.
320
00:19:21,662 --> 00:19:22,702
Carl.
321
00:19:25,165 --> 00:19:27,285
"Watch out for stobor."
322
00:19:47,396 --> 00:19:48,556
Drive!
323
00:19:49,648 --> 00:19:52,068
-Drive!
-I'm driving.
324
00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:54,030
Jesus Christ, dude.
325
00:19:58,657 --> 00:20:00,737
So did you get what you wanted?
326
00:20:02,953 --> 00:20:04,713
Did you cuckold him or whatever?
327
00:20:04,788 --> 00:20:05,908
Yes.
328
00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:08,832
I am victorious.
329
00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:12,460
Okay. That's good, I guess.
330
00:20:13,630 --> 00:20:16,220
I don't know, man.
I feel more confused than when we started.
331
00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:18,840
I mean, I jumped in,
and shit definitely got weird.
332
00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:20,597
But I don't feel like I learned anything.
333
00:20:20,679 --> 00:20:22,179
Watch out.
334
00:20:23,140 --> 00:20:26,690
-What?
-Watch... out... for... sto--
335
00:20:28,187 --> 00:20:29,227
sto--
336
00:20:29,813 --> 00:20:33,113
No, no. C.W., no! No! No!
337
00:20:33,192 --> 00:20:35,192
I have been saying yes all goddamn day.
338
00:20:35,277 --> 00:20:37,647
I am not saying yes
to you puking in my car!
339
00:20:37,738 --> 00:20:40,778
Oh, my God, dude.
I said yes to driving you
340
00:20:40,866 --> 00:20:43,366
and to the weird fucking cuckolding thing.
341
00:20:43,452 --> 00:20:46,792
And watching you get
blasted out of your mind. I'm sick of it.
342
00:20:49,291 --> 00:20:50,461
Stobor.
343
00:20:52,044 --> 00:20:53,054
Sto--
344
00:20:55,631 --> 00:20:56,631
C.W.?
345
00:20:59,092 --> 00:21:00,182
C.W.?
346
00:21:01,553 --> 00:21:03,063
-C.W.
-Carl.
347
00:21:05,265 --> 00:21:06,555
Carl.
348
00:21:09,061 --> 00:21:10,351
Carl.
349
00:21:13,398 --> 00:21:15,108
Carl.
350
00:21:21,907 --> 00:21:22,987
Are you okay?
351
00:21:23,784 --> 00:21:24,794
Anne?
352
00:21:24,868 --> 00:21:27,998
Oh, no. I'm Ginny, her daughter.
353
00:21:29,456 --> 00:21:32,076
My God, you look just like her.
354
00:21:32,835 --> 00:21:34,125
Thank you, yes.
355
00:21:34,211 --> 00:21:37,511
I inherited my mother's looks
and my father's acid reflux.
356
00:21:38,006 --> 00:21:40,216
Here. Drink this.
357
00:21:41,176 --> 00:21:42,636
How'd I get back here?
358
00:21:42,719 --> 00:21:45,099
Your granddaughter brought you back.
359
00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:48,180
You passed out in her car,
and she thought you were dying.
360
00:21:49,017 --> 00:21:50,097
I got it.
361
00:21:56,108 --> 00:21:57,478
Perhaps she's right.
362
00:21:59,111 --> 00:22:02,071
So this is C.W. Longbottom.
363
00:22:03,365 --> 00:22:05,485
I have to say
you're not at all what I expected.
364
00:22:06,076 --> 00:22:08,996
Well, I'm not what I expected either.
365
00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:11,159
I'm sure your mother
told you horror stories.
366
00:22:11,248 --> 00:22:13,578
Actually, she never mentioned you once.
367
00:22:15,544 --> 00:22:19,424
Until, one day, she comes home with this.
368
00:22:21,758 --> 00:22:23,548
She asked me to put it in the VCR.
369
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,600
It's not every day your 70-year-old mother
comes home with a video game.
370
00:22:27,681 --> 00:22:30,601
But then she tells me
that an old friend wrote it.
371
00:22:32,603 --> 00:22:36,363
She kept this totem of my failure
to humiliate me.
372
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,730
What? No. No.
373
00:22:38,817 --> 00:22:41,027
She was proud of you
for finding your thing.
374
00:22:41,695 --> 00:22:43,815
She said you predicted
the whole video game thing
375
00:22:43,906 --> 00:22:45,906
back in the '70s or something.
376
00:22:47,743 --> 00:22:50,293
I did. Yes.
377
00:22:50,370 --> 00:22:51,460
She remembered.
378
00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:54,788
Yeah. She also said you snorted
the next three decades up your nose.
379
00:22:56,043 --> 00:22:57,383
Also yes.
380
00:22:59,129 --> 00:23:03,299
Anyway... I'm sorry
for tricking you into coming here.
381
00:23:06,303 --> 00:23:09,473
Silly of me to think two old men
who share the same profession
382
00:23:09,556 --> 00:23:11,676
and the same wildly specific interests
383
00:23:11,767 --> 00:23:14,557
might rekindle a friendship
before one of them dies.
384
00:23:16,188 --> 00:23:17,978
I guess forgiveness is hard to find
385
00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:20,855
when you're a stubborn ass
who can't admit when he's wrong.
386
00:23:23,362 --> 00:23:25,112
I'm talking about you, by the way.
387
00:23:25,822 --> 00:23:27,412
Yeah, I got that.
388
00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:30,409
Great.
389
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,710
Don't forget this bad boy.
390
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:39,714
God, do they just
give these out to anybody?
391
00:23:42,005 --> 00:23:43,545
Yes, they do.
392
00:23:46,093 --> 00:23:47,803
I'm just gonna steal one of these.
393
00:23:52,724 --> 00:23:54,024
Hey.
394
00:23:55,143 --> 00:23:57,233
"Watch out for stobor."
395
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,570
Nothing.
396
00:24:15,247 --> 00:24:16,617
Goodbye, old girl.
397
00:24:42,983 --> 00:24:47,153
Peter, my behavior last night,
I acted like a contemptible fool.
398
00:24:48,071 --> 00:24:51,831
And I said things which were unforgivable.
399
00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:58,459
You also took a shit in my desk.
400
00:24:59,333 --> 00:25:02,173
Oh, yes. That too.
401
00:25:04,379 --> 00:25:06,839
You didn't say anything that wasn't true.
402
00:25:10,761 --> 00:25:12,011
I just wish...
403
00:25:14,389 --> 00:25:16,099
He needs some fresh air.
404
00:25:16,183 --> 00:25:17,183
I...
405
00:25:19,102 --> 00:25:20,652
May I?
406
00:25:48,507 --> 00:25:49,717
Oh, my goodness.
407
00:25:52,761 --> 00:25:55,221
She started it the day we moved in.
408
00:25:59,601 --> 00:26:01,351
"To the seeds that blossom."
409
00:26:03,146 --> 00:26:04,226
Indeed.
410
00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:07,815
Of course,
I wanted to live in the city, but...
411
00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:10,315
You did it for her.
412
00:26:11,238 --> 00:26:12,818
You're a better man than I, Peter.
413
00:26:14,241 --> 00:26:15,331
Yeah, a good man...
414
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,120
and a mediocre writer.
415
00:26:20,747 --> 00:26:22,247
Well, I don't know about that.
416
00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:27,962
How many writers can claim
they've written an icosology?
417
00:26:29,756 --> 00:26:30,756
How do you--
418
00:26:31,425 --> 00:26:32,625
Doesn't matter.
419
00:26:33,552 --> 00:26:37,012
You know, it's sad
the world will never know how it ends.
420
00:26:37,097 --> 00:26:40,557
It ends with a dead body. Mine.
421
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:46,022
No, I mean for Bjorn Hammerfall
and the crew of the Bellerophon.
422
00:26:46,106 --> 00:26:48,276
The last we saw them,
423
00:26:48,942 --> 00:26:53,452
they had just slipped into hyperspace
from the Andromeda sector.
424
00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:57,200
You read volume 19?
425
00:27:00,287 --> 00:27:02,207
I read them all.
426
00:27:03,248 --> 00:27:05,248
Some more than once.
427
00:27:05,834 --> 00:27:07,674
I've always been a fan.
428
00:27:09,838 --> 00:27:11,758
Was jealous, yes.
429
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,510
Angry, certainly.
430
00:27:13,592 --> 00:27:15,222
Drunk most of the time.
431
00:27:17,804 --> 00:27:19,264
Always a fan.
432
00:27:26,522 --> 00:27:27,522
Take it.
433
00:27:29,858 --> 00:27:31,778
At least one person will read it.
434
00:27:34,571 --> 00:27:37,371
I'd prefer to hear it read
by the author himself.
435
00:27:39,326 --> 00:27:42,906
It's quite long.
How much time do you have?
436
00:27:55,926 --> 00:27:57,136
Till it's over.
437
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,570
"The only sound
438
00:28:16,697 --> 00:28:22,287
in the command center
of the USPC Battle-Cruiser Bellerophon
439
00:28:23,745 --> 00:28:27,205
was the low pulse of the sub-light drives.
440
00:28:28,041 --> 00:28:34,721
The crew stood silent as they looked out
upon the shattered remains of Antigone V."
441
00:28:34,798 --> 00:28:36,588
"Shattered remains"?
442
00:28:36,675 --> 00:28:37,715
What happened to Antigone?
443
00:28:37,801 --> 00:28:41,681
"Hammerfall awoke with a start.
It was a dream.
444
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,350
Or maybe a nightmare.
445
00:28:51,231 --> 00:28:53,321
Perhaps a vision of the future.
446
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,570
He swung his legs off the zero-G hammock,
447
00:28:56,653 --> 00:29:00,873
strode over to the comms panel
and punched through to the bridge."