Before we start putting stuff on tape, I gotta ask you something.
LIPSKY:
Okay...
DAVID:
I need to know that anything that I ask you five minutes later to not put in, you won’t put in.
LIPSKY:
Absolutely.
He clicks off the recorder.
DAVID:
Given my level of fatigue and f***-up quotient lately, it’s the only way I can see doin’ it and not going crazy.
LIPSKY:
I understand completely.
Lipsky presses play.
DAVID:
Right back on, huh.
LIPSKY:
You agreed to the interview.
29 I/E. CAR/MAIN STREET - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - DAY 29 Lipsky at the wheel. David chewing tobacco. Ad-libs.
DAVID:
...There’ll be signs for the school on the right.
LIPSKY:
You like teaching there?
13.
DAVID:
Yeah, I do, very much, that’s what’sso f***ed, I feel so bad for these kids.
LIPSKY:
Why do you feel bad them, they havethe best writing teacher in the world.
DAVID:
If I were there, maybe. The whole fuss has taken me out of school for the past two weeks and I’m gonna have to leave again tomorrow. We’ve got to get up at the crack of dawn to leavefor the airport, by the way.
LIPSKY:
Oh, sh*t, do we really?
DAVID:
That’s what you signed on for, man.
You’re welcome to stick around, write an article about my dogs. Might bemore interesting, I promise you.
David spits chewed tobacco into a Savarin can.
31 INT. ISU CAMPUS/CORRIDOR - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - DAY 31 David and Lipsky walk to his classroom.
DAVID:
Do yourself a favor, don’t expect any fireworks in there... Oh.
