Storr: How consciously did you structure this according to psychological or psychoanalytical models, or how much of this was organically coming out of your own experience?
X: It came out of my own development.
STORR: Your own development?
X: Yeah.
Storr: What do you mean by development?
X: Are you familiar with photography, the process of photography?
Storr hesitates and half laughs as he squints at her.
X: You put the photo paper in the developer and what happens?
Storr: What I was asking—
X: What happens, Jerry?
Storr: The photograph develops.
X: Good boy, Frank, good boy. The photo develops. And this is what life is, little Waldo Emerson, little Charlie, darling. You put people in situations and their personality develops. Their little freaky heads.
X lights a cigarette. A long silence.
STORR: I—well, I had one more—
X: Come on, Billy, just go with it, Billy Boy, ask me another smart question of yours. Have a look at your notes, find some genius in there!