i actually, when marc maron interviewed you about this book he compared this book to a confederacy of dunces. and i actually thought that was the best analogy i'd heard. i thought that was a very smart one. and, you know, that book has been one that people have attempted for years and years to make into a film and had been completely unable to do it. and i wonder if they would have the same problem with this for the same reason. - well, i think they'd have a problem with it. but there are filmmakers who have solved that with very dense and idiosyncratic pieces. but it isn't my, you know, that's just a kind of folly thought of mine. when i think about something could be a movie, 'cause i do get asked about it that way. but it's the present tense of the writing, where it was very reactive to the things that were immediately going on. and anticipating some things that, sadly, have occurred since the finishing of it. - right, i wondered about the timing of it, because it really does feel like it was written yesterday but in fact, you probably had to do a little bit of looking into the fut