he starts at 1:20 8:57 "What can be done? Say who you are. Really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won't be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can't help but be. But more importantly if you're honest about who you are, you'll help that person be less lonely in their world. Because that person will recognize him or herself in you. And that will give them hope. And it's do

My father had a black Remington portable. He hit the keys so ardently that he wore their letters off. He’d sit at that machine and smoke...