A Fox Books Superstore.

Quel nightmare.

It has nothing to do with us.

It's big impersonal overstocked and full of ignorant salespeople.

But they discount.

But they don't provide any service.

We do. So, really it's a good development.

You know how in the flower district there are all those shops so you an find whatever you want?

This is going to be the book district.

If they don't have it, we do.

And vice versa. Absolutely.

When you are finished with Fox Books The Shop Around The Corner will be responsible for reversing the entire course of the lndustrial Revolution.

Well, now, that is so sweet!

Thank you. That is so sweet.

Although I What?

Wait a minute.What is that doing here?

Oh, my gosh! This is amazing.

Listen. The Olympia Report Deluxe Electric.

Report. As in gunshot.

That sound is familiar.

Listen to this.

What, that whirring?

The gentle, soothing lullaby of a piece of machinery so perfect--

I know where I've heard that before.

I needed a backup.

Don't you have another one at your apartment?

I might! That you wrote a column about? Yes.

Who cares? What were you going to say?

-When?-Before.

Nothing. Come on.

I'm just wondering.

I'm wondering about my work.

What is it that I do, exactly?

All I really do is-- All you really do is this incredibly noble thing.

I don't know.

Really, I'm just-- You are a lone reed.

You are a lone reed standing tall waving boldly in the corrupt sands of commerce.

I am a lone reed.

I am a lone reed.

Sometimes I wonder about my life.

I lead a small life.

Well, valuable, but small.

And sometimes I wonder do I do it because I like it or because I haven't been brave?

So much of what I see reminds me of something in a book when shouldn 't it be the other way around?

I don 't want an answer.

I just want to send this cosmic question into the void.

So good night, dear void.