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Weve got Nobody (maybe her most famous poem?
At least top five?)
Im also really into the parallels were getting with Em and Vinnie.
Submission, Em wails about the whole process.
Isnt that an awful word?
Like he controls me?
Maggie the maid, an MVP: Some people get a kick out of that sort of thing.
Ems insecurity is devouring her, and it is so human and wretched to see.
And what has SAM ever written, hmm??
Maggie assures Em that Sam probably hasnt read it yet.
By the time he does, Em sighs, Ill have shriveled up and died.
Meanwhile, the teens have been up to no good digging a giant hole in the yard.
Mama Dickinson, again, pleads with her husband to get these girls OUT of their house.
(Theyre from Brooklyn, he says.
Thats no excuse, she replies.)
Papa Dickinson evades this conversation by going birding, and Em tags along.
She defies doctors orders by staring at the sun to look for birds.
Shipley feels like Vinnie is only interested in him for sex.
Vinnie wants more intel, but he cant bear to talk about it.
He continues to ignore her as she tells him they are not engaged.
Shipley has an idea.
FLOs process is to allow the place to speak to him.
Its all about listening.
In my notes I writeTALK TO YOUR WIFE BEFORE MAKING THIS DECISION YOU HANDSOME DOPE.
But he does not, and so when he tells her, she is furious.
Are these racy letters?
I dont trust him.
This whole season we are definitely seeing a different Sue.
This doesnt seem like the sort of person Em would be in love with, am I wrong?
Remember how they conceived Vinnie in the middle of the day?!
FLO and Em bond while he explains that he sees absolutely no difference between her art and his.
Em tells FLO her about her creative block.
What does he do when he doesnt know what to do?
He says he waits for as long as it takes.
When youre making art that will last for centuries, whats a couple months, even years?
My parks could save democracy itself, so, cant rush them.
I love his matter-of-fact ambition!
Somehow it does not sound douchey or pretentious?
Maybe because we already know he is correct about how great his parks will be?
to make it achieve this aim, he abandons her in a hedge maze.
Bold, but effective!
Before he leaves her, though, she explains the source of her plight: aneditor.
I gave my poem to him.
Ooof, been there.
FLO tells her that opinion is a hideous distraction from the beauty of your craft.
FLO tells her to ignore the audience and to focus on the work itself, which is the gift.
How does one do that?
Refuse to be the daisy.
And start being the sun.
Is that a little corny?
I GUESS, but I found it really lovely in this moment here!
(Love that in an editor.)
Also, never a great sign when a man tells a woman, you should be smiling.
She is not the only one who has been protesting a big life change to no avail!
for an ambush proposal she clearly does not want!!
One that involved vandalizing her parents property AND spelling her name wrong!
She says, Okay, but, and he says SHE SAID OKAY!
and kisses her deeply, and I think now she is engaged?!?
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