Eliot Drasen: [sees Harry Crumb has picked up a large ovoid display in his office and is playing around with it like a football] Uh ... Crumb? Do ... do you know what that is?
Harry Crumb: [casually tossing the ovoid up and down] An egg?
Eliot Drasen: Uh ... yeah. Yeah. But what kind of egg?
Harry Crumb: Bird egg?
Eliot Drasen: [carefully takes the egg and replaces it on his desk] No, no. It's a pterodactyl egg. It's fossilized. It's 90 million years old. In the entire world, only two of these have ever been found.
Harry Crumb: You know, that may be worth something.
Eliot Drasen: ... the thought had crossed my mind.
Harry Crumb: We think a lot alike. I like a man who thinks.
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