Adaptation
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The back of his trousers are stained
greasy black from an anal leakage...

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... due to dysentery.
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He moans with each tentative step
through the overgrown jungle. ''

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I'm fuck ed.
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We open with Laroche. He's funny.
He says, ''I love to mutate plants. ''

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He says, ''Mutation is fun. ''
Okay, we show flowers and.... Okay.

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We have to have the court case.
We show Laroche.

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He says, ''I was mutated as a baby.
That's why I'm so smart. ''

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That's funny. Okay, we open
at the beginning of time. No!

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-Laroche is driving into the swamp.
-Crazy White Man!

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l don't know how to adapt this.
l should have stuck with my own stuff.

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l don't know why l thought
l could write this.

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See her?
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l fucked her up the ass.
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No. l'm kidding.
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Maybe l can help.
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lt's about flowers.
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Okay.
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But it's not only about flowers, right?
You have the crazy plant-nut guy, right?

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He's funny. Right?
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''There's not nearly enough of him
to fill a book.''

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So Orlean ''digresses in long
passages.'' Blah, blah, blah.

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'' No narrative unites these passages.''
New York Times Book Review.

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l can't structure this. lt's that
sprawling New York er shit.

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Man, l'd fuck her up the ass.
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-Sorry.
-The book has no story. There's no story.

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All right. Make one up.
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l mean, nobody in this town
can make up a crazy story like you.

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-You're the king of that.
-No, l didn't want to do that this time.

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lt's someone else's material.
l have a responsibility to Susan--

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Anyway, l wanted to grow as a writer.
l wanted to do something simple.

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Show people how amazing
flowers are.


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