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00:08Quando penso di questo trip,
00:10ho vedo David e me in la fronte del suo carro.
00:13Voglio qualcosa di più di quello che ha.
00:16Voglio proprio quello che ha già già.
00:19David.
00:20Wallace.
00:20Welcome!
00:21To Minneapolis.
00:22Hi, I'm David Lewis.
00:23Oh, hi.
00:24Ok, David and David.
00:26We only just metto.
00:26He's writing a piece on the tour.
00:29What's this story about in your mind?
00:32Just what it's like to be the most talked about writer in the country.
00:34That sort of thing.
00:35You're like a nervous guy, huh?
00:37No, no, no.
00:37No, I'm okay.
00:38How are you?
00:39Because I'm terrified.
00:42I gotta ask, what is with the bandana?
00:44I know that it's a security blanket for me whenever I'm kind of afraid my head is going to explode.
00:49If we ate like this all the time, what would be wrong with that?
00:52It's like good seductive commercial entertainment, like Die Hard.
00:54That first I heard?
00:55That first I heard.
00:56Great film.
00:56No, it's a brilliant film.
00:57The best.
00:58Hey, isn't it reassuring to have a lot of people read you?
01:01I think if the book is about anything.
01:03Yeah.
01:03It's about the question of why.
01:06Why am I doing it?
01:07And what's so American about what I'm doing?
01:13If they're responding to your work and your work is really personal, then reading you is another way of meeting
01:18you, isn't that right?
01:19That's so good.
01:20Thank you.
01:20I don't know why you mean to me.
01:24I think that if there's a sort of sadness for people under 45, it has something to do with pleasure
01:29and achievement and entertainment.
01:32Like a sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on.
01:35I don't know.
01:36I got a real serious fear of being a certain way.
01:39I treasure my regular guy-ness.
01:41You don't crack open a thousand page book because you heard the author is a regular guy.
01:44You do it because he's brilliant.
01:47What is with you?
01:48What is with you?
01:49I'm not so sure you want to be me.
01:51Just be a good guy.
01:57The more people think you're really great, the bigger the fear of being a fraud is.
02:02David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.
02:06Living those days with him reminded me of what life is like.
02:09And the conversation is the best one I ever had.
02:14It's me talking as a tape recorder.
02:17I'm smoking.
02:18Having just said I wouldn't smoke, I'm smoking.
02:20Just me and your tape recorder.
