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To begin.
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To begin.
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How to start?
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I'm hungry.
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I should get coffee.
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Coffee would help me think.
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But I should write something first,
then reward myself with coffee.
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Coffee and a muffin. Okay,
so I need to establish the themes.
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Maybe banana-nut.
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That's a good muffin.
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Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
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Victorian-era orchid hunter
William Arnold...
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...drowned on a collecting expedition.
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Osmers vanished without a trace
in Asia.
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Augustus Margary survived toothache,
rheumatism, pleurisy and dysentery...
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...only to be murdered when
he completed his mission...
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...and traveled beyond Bhamo.
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Laroche loved orchids, but I...
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I came to believe he loved the
difficulty and fatality of getting them...
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...almost as much as he loved
the orchids themselves.
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I've been a professional horticulturist
for, like, 12 years.
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I owned my own plant nursery,
which was destroyed by the hurricane.
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I'm a professional plant lecturer.
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I've given over, like, 60 lectures
on the cultivation of plants.
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I'm a published author,
both in magazine and book form.
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And I have extensive experience
with orchids...
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...and the asexual micropropagation
of orchids under aseptic cultures.
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That's laboratory work.
It's not at all like your nursery work.
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I'm probably the smartest person
I know.