K: Look at this. There’s a new book (I learned later that it wasn’t brand new.). This article (in The Virginian-Pilot) says fourteen-year-old boys aren’t reading much these days, but this one line made them want to read the book. Something about a naked girl.
Z: (Z is busy. He’s rushing to complete a chore so he can get back to X-box.) That’s strange. It isn’t an actual naked girl. Why would that draw them in?
K: They (the folks interviewed by The Virginian-Pilot) say the book is funny and a little crude.
Z: What’s the name of it?
K: Swim the Fly.
Z finally makes it to his room, to his X-box.
K keeps reading the article.
K: Come listen to the first paragraph of the book.
Z reluctantly comes into the dining room.
K: "Movies don’t count," Cooper says. "The Internet -doesn’t count. Magazines don’t count. A real, live naked girl. That’s the deal. That’s our goal for this summer."
Z : Mom, I want that book. (He laughs because now he identifies with the fourteen-year-old boys in the article.)
Z: (Z is busy. He’s rushing to complete a chore so he can get back to X-box.) That’s strange. It isn’t an actual naked girl. Why would that draw them in?
K: They (the folks interviewed by The Virginian-Pilot) say the book is funny and a little crude.
Z: What’s the name of it?
K: Swim the Fly.
Z finally makes it to his room, to his X-box.
K keeps reading the article.
K: Come listen to the first paragraph of the book.
Z reluctantly comes into the dining room.
K: "Movies don’t count," Cooper says. "The Internet -doesn’t count. Magazines don’t count. A real, live naked girl. That’s the deal. That’s our goal for this summer."
Z : Mom, I want that book. (He laughs because now he identifies with the fourteen-year-old boys in the article.)
