Craig Taylor

269

A cafeteria.

Alvin: So you’re explaining the world to me.

Roy: I’m not explaining the world.

Alvin: As if I don’t have experience of the world.

Roy: What I’m trying to do…

Alvin: Is explain.

Roy: Is illuminate. And sure, you know, I can illuminate certain subjects.

Alvin: We’re not going to talk about property prices.

Roy: And that’s fine too. I don’t need to talk about that. There’s a world full of other subjects.

[They sit in silence.]

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Scripts

288
A university administrator’s office.
287
A man waits for a coffee in a Lower East Side coffee shop.
286
Mona and Alvin stand before a mural painted on a wall in rural El Salvador.
285
A woman stands on the subway platform at 14th Street.
284
The waiting room of a community health centre.
283
The visitor’s gallery of the European Parliament in Brussels.
282
A café in Paris, 20th arrondissement.
281
The paint aisle.
280
A downtown café.
279
A large hardware store.
278
A laneway.
277
A path through a forest of old cedars.
276
A cafe in Oregon.
274
A used bookstore.
273
In Christian heaven.
272
At the home of a crossword puzzle setter.
271
Outside a car dealership.
270
The Salish Sea.
269
A cafeteria.
268
In a forest.