Craig Taylor

271

Outside a car dealership.

Alvin: I think what I struggle with is this idea that there was a day, an actual day, when my brain was at its best. And now everything is kind of hurtling downhill.

Mona: You can always use the puzzle app. I gave you the password.

Alvin: But, I mean, do puzzles work? I wish I could feel it. I wish I could feel vintage thinking. Vintage brain use.

[They listen to a loud, long car honk]

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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.