Siri Hustvedt

There was an outside place with a dipping pool.

And Paul walked straight into the pool.

And once we realized that he was OK,

We laughed so hard.

I think his former athleticism saved him because his head was still dry, but the rest of him was just soaking wet.

I don't know.

There are many things like that.

I treasure them.

While I was writing the book, remembering some of those absurd truths, it made me laugh and made me happy.

Thank you for having me.

I really appreciate it.

The end.

Oh, I do.

Well, yes, I think actually, you know, Paul works in the movies too.

And when...

He wasn't the director of Smoke, but he ended up directing part of the sequel, Blue in the Face.

And so in his debut of directing, he had the clapboard or whatever it's called.

And he was very shy.

And so he was like, you know, it was like kind of stepping into that place because Wayne had...

blown away and he said oh you direct the rest of this thing and so so pa you know he was stepping into those director's shoes and someone on the crew just said come on pa come on you do it just do it pa goes so that was like he crossed the hump and uh then he was happy to do it after that i think but so yeah yeah