:25:00
Potting soil. Shovels.
Food wrappers. Fertilizer.
:25:04
Susie said she hoped
it was fertilizer, anyway.
:25:07
She said she couldn't be sure. Laroche
had a certain aromatic look about him.
:25:11
And she said--
:25:12
She said perhaps his obsessiveness
didn't leave room in his schedule...
:25:15
...for personal hygiene.
:25:18
Maybe the orchids got
all the available water.
:25:22
I wanted to want something as much
as people wanted these plants.
:25:28
But...
:25:30
... it isn't part of my constitution.
:25:34
I suppose I do have
one unembarrassed passion.
:25:41
I wanna know what it feels lik e
to care about something passionately.
:25:57
''Should one be lucky enough
to see a ghost orchid...
:26:00
...all else will seem eclipsed. ''
:26:06
If the ghost orchid
was really a phantom...
:26:09
... it was still such a bewitching one that
it could seduce people to pursue it...
:26:13
...year after year
and mile after miserable mile.
:26:16
If it was a real flower,
I wanted to see one.
:26:20
The reason was not that I love orchids.
I don't even especially lik e orchids.
:26:23
What I wanted
was to see this thing...
:26:27
... that people were drawn to
in such a singular and powerful way.
:26:36
So how many turtles
did you end up collecting?
:26:39
l lost interest right after that.
:26:45
l dropped turtles when l fell
in love with lce Age fossils.
:26:48
Collected the shit out of them.
:26:50
Fossils were the only thing that made
sense to me in this fucked-up world.
:26:55
l ditched fossils
for resilvering old mirrors.
:26:58
My mom and l
had the largest collection...