One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' Page #2

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I'll come by later, like around 8?

Yeah. I'll see you later.

- Okay. All right, bye.

- Okay, bye.

You see, all symptoms are purposeful,

be they positive or negative.

You see?

I wouldn't feel strangely about it.

Just the idea of turning yourself

over for rehabilitation...

...is only naturally gonna make you

a little apprehensive.

But that's just a manifestation

of the fear.

It's just the:

That's the D talking.

You know, the first thing I hear,

that when you go into the New Path...

...what they do to you,

they cut your pecker off.

They could never get away with that.

You kidding? That's a myth.

It's actually the spleen

that's remanded to their custody.

- The what?

- Hey, how is everything?

Everything is super good.

Not with me.

I got a lot of problems nobody else has.

No, no, come on.

More people than you'd think.

And more people each day. This is

a world getting progressively worse.

Can we not agree on that?

- What's on the dessert menu?

- Would you like to order some dessert?

Like what?

Well, we have fresh strawberry pie...

...and fresh peach pie

that we make here ourselves.

- No, we don't want any dessert.

- All right.

F***ing fruit pies are for old ladies.

- What do you think about New Path?

- While it doesn't matter...

...what I think, I kind of

have to tip my hat to any entity...

...that can bring

so much integrity to evil.

I mean, imagine this:

A seemingly voluntary, privatized gulag...

...managed to eliminate the middlemen

of public accountability and free will.

Wrapped it up in a bow

and gave it like a gift.

I mean, come on, this is:

This is awe-inspiring stuff.

I heard you have to go cold turkey.

Cold turkey doesn't even apply

to Substance D.

Unlike the legacy

of inherited predisposition...

...to addictive behavior

or substances...

...this needs no genetic assistance.

There's no weekend warriors on the D.

You're either on it...

...or you haven't tried it.

- Well, I like it.

- Yeah.

How many caps do you take per day?

Very difficult to determine.

But not that many.

Well, like the old-school pharmacopoeia,

a tolerance develops, you know.

These visions of bugs,

they're just garden-variety psychosis...

...but a clear indication

that you've hurdled...

...over the initial fun and euphoric phase

and passed on...

...to the next phase.

News from the guinea-pig grapevine

suggests that whatever it is...

...we won't know

until it's way too late, you see?

You see that we're all canaries

in the coalmine on this one?

I do think I have another source.

That Donna chick.

- Bob's girl?

- Yeah.

Yeah, his girl. Although I know

for a fact he never gets in her pants.

Really?

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