:38:08
"Dear Joyce, thanks for the letter.
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"What do you do besides selling comics?"
:38:13
Anybody in the room ever done
any creative writing of any sort?
:38:18
"I'm a sometime activist,
and I teach writing to prisoners.
:38:22
"I try to help them build an interior life...
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"and make art out of
their monotonous, suffocating routine."
:38:28
This sounds familiar.
:38:30
"So you married or what?"
:38:32
"I'm divorced, thank God."
:38:36
Look, I think you and I
got a lot in common, you know?
:38:41
How am I gonna get you
to come visit me in Cleveland?
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- Cleveland?
- Yeah.
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You think that's a good idea?
:38:46
It's a great idea.
:38:48
You should meet me
because I'm a great guy.
:38:52
Despite the way my comics read...
:38:54
I got a lot of redeeming characteristics.
:38:58
I don't know. Where would I stay?
:39:00
I don't know. With me.
:39:02
Don't worry.
I'm not gonna put no moves on you.
:39:05
I'm not worried about that.
:39:07
Hold on,
I just spilled my chamomile tea all over me.
:39:11
So what are you worried about then?
:39:17
It's the way all the different artists draw you.
:39:21
- What?
- I don't really know what to expect.
:39:23
Sometimes you look like a younger Brando.
:39:26
But then, the way Crumb draws you...
:39:29
you look like a hairy ape, with all these...
:39:32
wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body.
:39:35
I don't really know what to expect.
:39:37
No, those are motion lines.
:39:41
I'm an active guy.
:39:43
Look, just come out here...
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and I will try to be anyone
that you want me to be, okay?
:39:50
That's a dangerous offer.
I'm a notorious reformer.