INT.APT.-DAY
He is not well. He is not necessarily ill, but he's getting there. He has had the 24 hour flu for 5 days and he has been living on chocolate and chicken soup It is so cold outside that he is thinking about writing a story about an island in the south pacific.
He is sitting at this kitchen table talking on the phone to his agent. He does not hate his agent, but he's getting there.
AGENT
They want you do rewrite the first 30 pages again.
HE
Tell them I'd rather have brain surgery.
AGENT
They're not going to be happy.
HE
Then tell them to have brain surgery. Tell them
that if I even look at those pages again my head
is going to explode. Then nobody makes any
money. Besides, they wouldn't know what a
creative thought was if it ate them.
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