Come on In! - Charles Bukowski [36]
‘Ah, you came by!’
‘Ewe,’ I said.
‘I think I have a backer! All you have to do is write it.’
‘It might take a few months.’
‘But, of course …’
Then Paul was back. He had a strange pink-looking drink for the Princess.
Pinchot flashed toward the kitchen for one of his own.
It was the first of many meetings which would simply dissolve into bouts of heavy drinking, especially on my part. I found it to be a needed build-up for my confidence as I was really only interested in the poem and the short story. Writing a screenplay seemed to me an ultimately stupid thing to do. But better men than I had been trapped into such a ridiculous act.
Jon Pinchot came out with his drink, sat down.
It became a long night. We talked and talked, about what I was not sure. Finally both Sarah and I had drunk too much to be able to drive back. We were kindly offered a bedroom.
It was in that bedroom, in the dark, as we poured a last good red wine, Sarah asked me, ‘You going to write a screenplay?’
‘Hell no,’ I answered.
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Copyright
First published in the United States of America in 2006 by Ecco,
an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street,
New York, NY 10022
Published in Great Britain in 2008 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition published in 2009 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Linda Lee Bukowski, 2006
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