:04:02
... wanted to shellac it
to preserve it for all eternity.
:04:06
It was a wish of vanity...
:04:08
... for she'd hoped only to extend
her newfound notoriety.
:04:13
But time had its way, and
within the year the face was gone...
:04:16
... though something
of its anguish lingered.
:04:20
From the start, my father said
it resembled not Christ but the devil.
:04:24
But then later, Pinky Lee.
:04:27
My mother, a hell-raiser and a cynic,
never even went and looked.
:04:31
Take as long as you like,
sweetheart.
:04:38
Bo's idea of heaven,
a stroll through Kmart.
:04:53
"In the process, they compiled
a long list of economic woes:
:04:56
Unemployment, sagging productivity,
high interest rates...
:05:00
...shrinking capital
and downright economic stagnation."
:05:14
It was inescapable...
:05:16
... my father's depression.
:05:20
Like some fumigator's mist
filling our lungs.
:05:31
It came to be the focal point
of our lives that summer.
:05:35
The geological formation around
which everything was defined.
:05:39
Hey.
:05:42
There's a hummingbird nest
by the woodshed, three eggs.