:16:00
Hey, look! Lydia, how you doing?
:16:02
Look. It's Lydia Sinclair,
our membership winner.
:16:05
I know.
:16:06
What have you fellas been up to?
:16:08
Everything's locked up.
We thought we'd get some dinner.
:16:16
Say, anybody up for Chinese?
:16:19
Would you like to join us?
:16:21
No, thank you.
:16:22
-Watch your nails.
-I'd rather go home.
:16:25
Me too.
:16:28
-You still have to eat.
-No, I'd like to--
:16:30
Don't blow this.
:16:34
What'd I tell you? It's only dinner.
:16:36
Come on. You're gonna do this.
:16:38
You'll have something
to tell your mother.
:16:41
You are coming!
:16:45
Fine.
:16:51
What do you do?
:16:53
Well, I get to read
the book sometimes.
:16:57
But mostly, I calculate
production costs...
:17:03
...calculation costs...
:17:06
...from first-edition hardcover to,
sorry, softcover.
:17:09
And after softcover,
it's somebody else's problem.
:17:12
Boy, that sounds real exciting.
:17:14
Why does it sound exciting?
It's not exciting.
:17:17
Why not?
:17:20
Your calculations determine whether
a book is published or not.
:17:24
You know, maybe it's a book
that changes the way people think...
:17:28
...or, you know, act.
:17:29
Yeah, but what we publish is
mostly trashy romance novels.
:17:33
Don't say that.
:17:35
There's nothing trashy about romance.
:17:39
In romance is passion.
:17:43
There's imagination. There's beauty.
:17:48
Besides, you find...
:17:50
...some wonderful things
in the trash.