Adaptation. Page #3

those teachers are dangerous

if your goal is to do

something new.

A writer should always have that goal.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

It's not building, you know,

one of your model airplanes.

McKee is a former

Fulbright Scholar, Charles.

Are you a former

Fulbright Scholar?

Say something. I dragged her here,

and now I'm not saying anything.

Make her laugh.

Say something funny.

I hate parties, Amelia.

Why did we come here?

Because we're hip, young

trendsetters on the make?

More like old losers

sitting on the floor, maybe.

Jesus, Charlie.

Heh, heh, heh.

Speak for yourself. Okay...

Charlie, we're gonna fix you up.

We're gonna solve the whole Charlie

Kaufman mess for once and for all.

Okay.

Okay, let me see.

What do you need?

What, what, what?

Well, I'm glad you took

the orchid script.

I think it will be good for you

to get out of your head.

It'll ground you to think about the

bigger picture, about nature and stuff.

I still can't believe

they gave me that job.

I mean, after that lunch.

I was sweating insanely.

I was ranting. I was a mess.

You were nervous

because she was pretty.

How do you know she was pretty?

After eight months of knowing you,

I think I get what makes you sweat.

Well, whatever.

Well, moving on, what next?

You need a new getup.

This whole flannel-shirt thing,

it's not really doing anything

for you anymore.

Thanks for coming out

with me tonight, Amelia.

To begin.

To begin.

How to start?

I'm hungry.

I should get coffee.

Coffee would help me think.

But I should write something first,

then reward myself with coffee.

Coffee and a muffin. Okay,

so I need to establish the themes.

Maybe banana-nut.

That's a good muffin.

Orchid hunting is

a mortal occupation.

Victorian-era orchid hunter

William Arnold

drowned on

a collecting expedition.

Osmers vanished without a trace

in Asia.

Augustus Margary survived toothache,

rheumatism, pleurisy and dysentery,

only to be murdered when

he completed his mission

and traveled beyond Bhamo.

Laroche loved orchids, but I...

I came to believe he loved the

difficulty and fatality of getting them

almost as much as he loved

the orchids themselves.

I've been a professional

horticulturist for like 12 years.

Uh, I owned my own plant nursery,

which was destroyed by the hurricane.

I'm a professional

plant lecturer.

I've given over, like, 60 lectures

on the cultivation of plants.

I'm a published author,

both in magazine and book form.

And I have extensive experience

with orchids

and the asexual micropropagation

of orchids under aseptic cultures.

That's laboratory work.

It's not at all like your nursery work.

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