: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...
:27:00
...of 1 9th-century Dutch mirrors
on the planet.
:27:03
Perhaps you read about us.
Mirror World, October '88?
:27:06
l got a copy here somewhere.
:27:10
l guess l'd just like to know
how you can detach from something...
:27:13
...that you've invested
so much of your soul in.
:27:16
l mean, didn't you ever miss turtles?
:27:20
The only thing that made
your 1 0-year-old life worth living?
:27:25
Look, l'll tell you a story, all right?
:27:28
l once fell deeply, you know,
profoundly in love with tropical fish.
:27:34
l had 60 goddamn fish-tanks
in my house.
:27:36
l'd skin-dive to find just the right ones.
:27:39
Anisotremus virginicus, Holacanthus
ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus.
:27:44
You name it.
:27:46
Then one day l say, '' Fuck fish.''
:27:49
l renounce fish. l vow never
to set foot in that ocean again.
:27:54
That's how much ''fuck fish.''
:27:57
That was 1 7 years ago, and l have
never since stuck a toe in that ocean.