:25:00
Maybe the orchids got
all the available water.
:25:04
I wanted to want something as much
as people wanted these plants.
:25:11
But...
:25:13
...it isn't part of my constitution.
:25:17
I suppose I do have
one unembarrassed passion.
:25:23
I wanna know what it feels like
to care about something passionately.
:25:39
"Should one be lucky enough
to see a ghost orchid...
:25:42
...all else will seem eclipsed."
:25:48
If the ghost orchid
was really a phantom...
:25:51
...it was still such a bewitching one that
it could seduce people to pursue it...
:25:55
...year after year
and mile after miserable mile.
:25:59
If it was a real flower,
I wanted to see one.
:26:02
The reason was not that I love orchids.
I don't even especially like orchids.
:26:06
What I wanted
was to see this thing...
:26:09
...that people were drawn to
in such a singular and powerful way.
:26:18
So how many turtles
did you end up collecting?
:26:22
I lost interest right after that.
:26:27
I dropped turtles when I fell
in love with Ice Age fossils.
:26:30
Collected the shit out of them.
:26:32
Fossils were the only thing that made
sense to me in this fucked-up world.
:26:37
I ditched fossils
for resilvering old mirrors.
:26:40
My mom and I
had the largest collection...
:26:42
...of 19th-century Dutch mirrors
on the planet.
:26:45
Perhaps you read about us.
Mirror World, October '88?
:26:48
I got a copy here somewhere.
:26:52
I guess I'd just like to know
how you can detach from something...
:26:56
...that you've invested
so much of your soul in.
:26:58
I mean, didn't you ever miss turtles?