:13:16
There it is.
:13:18
The National Book Award.
:13:23
Oh, wow. He knows Oliver Most.
:13:27
Yeah, they went to Harvard together.
:13:30
Come see this. Come here.
:13:34
It's his novel, Comeback lnn.
:13:36
He's been working on it for years.
:13:40
Took Milton ten
to finish my favorite poem.
:13:44
Oh, here's his collected essays.
:13:47
I read this first chapter.
:13:48
- Yeah?
- Uh-huh.
:13:50
And?
:13:54
- It's great.
- Uh-huh.
:14:00
So, uh, what-what'd he say
about your article?
:14:07
Oh, I don't believe it.
:14:10
You didn't ask him, did you?
:14:13
Ellie. Tsk.
:14:15
- That's what they called me.
- Did they now?
:14:18
You know,
having the dubious distinction...
:14:20
of having been called "Big Al"
when you were this diminutive...
:14:23
package is a challenge
to confidence...
:14:27
but you have obviously
survived it, have you not?
:14:29
- Yes.
- So here you have in front of you
a living example...
:14:33
of-of everything
you're trying to achieve.
:14:36
I would just say get an ice breaker
and break out of it.
:14:39
- I'm havin' a lot of trouble.
- Listen...
:14:41
a writer calls his friend, he says,
"I've just finished writing a story.
:14:45
"It's not very good.
In fact, it's terrible.
:14:47
The worst part of it is
it's the best I can do.,,
:14:49
The writer is John Steinbeck.
The book is Grapes of Wrath!
:14:56
- Hi! Hi.
- Hey! Hi.