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| 0:00.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:07.6 | You are a very special breed, |
| 0:11.5 | or you are the only animal. |
| 0:15.1 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, this is Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. I'm here this week |
| 0:22.5 | with Donald E. Westlake, author of most recently Drowned Hopes, his newest Dortmunder novel. |
| 0:32.0 | I'll jump in right away. These are fairly unusual books in that these are about how things go wrong. |
| 0:39.1 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:40.0 | These mystery stories are the stories of clods and bunglers. |
| 0:44.1 | Oh, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:46.5 | No, they are, they are, I think of them as professional workmen, and that luck is against them and that things go wrong. Well, you know, in all of our |
| 1:00.3 | lives, things go wrong, little glitches and little errors. But the odds somehow are always |
| 1:05.4 | more against them than most of us. They take more heat than we do from the gods of luck. |
| 1:13.1 | What does Dorkmunder mean? |
| 1:16.0 | What is the word itself? |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, is this... |
| 1:18.2 | Well, I thought dorky world? |
| 1:21.2 | Well, I guess there's parts of that. |
| 1:22.5 | No, what had happened was... |
| 1:24.7 | First of all, I never knew I was going to do more than one book about this guy. |
| 1:29.2 | If I'd known he was going to be a serious hero, I would have named him Lance, something. |
| 1:36.0 | But he was only going to be in for one book. |
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