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Sly reflects on how he writes a lot and auditions again. He goes to a Woody Allen audition and is told he isn’t intimidating enough. That really gets him and he rejects rejection. He gets gel and slicks back his hair and comes back and gets the part. No is now a maybe to him. Sly becomes his roles and can get angry and use it to his advantage. He used it in an a challenge against Peter who was much bigger.

Sly reflects on his writing experiences. He uses everyone and in his life as a reason for certain characters. Every character had a way that they acted and why they acted. He worked at the theater and would record and reflect on what he watched. Sly got the acting bug and would do acting things while he was doing closing duties until another usher found him. Word got out that he was a little odd.

Sly is very lonely in the city and tries and auditions a lot. He isn’t given the chance to even fail. He encounters a man named Moondog who is blind and occupies a certain corner. Sly won’t give up on himself since Moondog is doing what he’s doing. He finds a job at a theater as an usher and is treated more like an object. Francis Ford Coppola wants to talk to Sly. Sly smashes his cake because of a long wait.