Of course. Whatever you feel mostcomfortable with.
DAVID:
It’s always stuff like “Where do youget your ideas?” (to Lipsky) From a Time-Life subscription series for$17.95 a month.
Lipsky and Martha laugh.
MARTHA:
It’s show time!
Martha goes to the podium.
DAVID:
(to Lipsky) It’s all downhill from here.
MARTHA:
This is the very last stop on his booktour and we’re very lucky to have him!
Ladies and gentlemen... Would youwelcome to the Hungry Mind... David.
Foster. Wallace!
The packed audience applauds enthusiastically.
watches as David approaches the podium.
Lipsky 66D INT. HUNGRY MIND BOOKSTORE - ST PAUL - 1996 - LATER 66D A long line of excited book buyers wait their turn. Seated at a table, David signs one and hands it to a YOUNG WOMAN.
46.
DAVID:
There you go.
The young woman looks at it with bemusement.
YOUNG WOMAN: What is that supposed to be, a computer?
DAVID:
What? No. It’s a smiley face. See?
YOUNG WOMAN: Ohhh...
DAVID:
If you want, I could put Wite-Out over it... YOUNG WOMAN: That’s okay.
DAVID:
You sure? It’s your book... Lipsky, in ad-libbed conversation with Betsy and Julie, observes from the sidelines.
Back to David. A NERDY GUY pulls out the Vintage paperback copy of The Broom of the System.
