:25:00
Potting soil. Shovels.
Food wrappers. Fertilizer.
:25:05
Susie said she hoped
it was fertilizer, anyway.
:25:08
She said she couldn't be sure. Laroche
had a certain aromatic look about him.
:25:12
And she said...
:25:13
She said perhaps his obsessiveness
didn't leave room in his schedule...
:25:16
...for personal hygiene.
:25:19
Maybe the orchids got
all the available water.
:25:23
I wanted to want something as much
as people wanted these plants.
:25:29
But...
:25:31
...it isn't part of my constitution.
:25:35
I suppose I do have
one unembarrassed passion.
:25:41
I wanna know what it feels like
to care about something passionately.
:25:58
"Should one be lucky enough
to see a ghost orchid...
:26:01
...all else will seem eclipsed."
:26:07
If the ghost orchid
was really a phantom...
:26:10
...it was still such a bewitching one that
it could seduce people to pursue it...
:26:14
...year after year
and mile after miserable mile.
:26:17
If it was a real flower,
I wanted to see one.
:26:21
The reason was not that I love orchids.
I don't even especially like orchids.
:26:24
What I wanted
was to see this thing...
:26:28
...that people were drawn to
in such a singular and powerful way.
:26:37
So how many turtles
did you end up collecting?
:26:40
I lost interest right after that.
:26:46
I dropped turtles when I fell
in love with Ice Age fossils.
:26:49
Collected the shit out of them.
:26:51
Fossils were the only thing that made
sense to me in this fucked-up world.
:26:56
I ditched fossils
for resilvering old mirrors.
:26:59
My mom and I
had the largest collection...