Neil and Eady are sitting at the same table in a café. They don’t know each other, but the girl is a shop assistant in the book store which Neil has visited some times, so she recognizes him
NEIL
Will you pass the cream?
EADY
What’d you get?
NEIL
What?
EADY
What are you reading?
NEIL
Book about metals.
EADY
Stress Fractures in Titanium.
What kind of work do you do?
NEIL
Lady, why are you so interested
in what I read or what I do?
EADY
I’ve seen you in the store from time to time.
NEIL
What store?
EADY
Hennessey and Ingalls. I work there.
If you don’t want to talk to me, it’s okay.
I’m sorry I bothered you.
NEIL
I didn’t mean to be rude.
I didn’t recognize you.
I work in metals. I’m a salesman.
My name’s Neil.
EADY
I’m Eady.
NEIL
You like working there?
EADY
Sure.
I get a discount and there’s
a whole section of books in my area.
NEIL
What area is that?
EADY
Graphic design.
I do letterheads and logotypes
at night and…
…the store’s a day job
until I get enough going.
NEIL
Who you do that for?
EADY
A restaurant.
I did their menus, and…
…a small record label. CDs.
I’ve done two so far.
NEIL
You go to school for that?
EADY
Yeah.
I went to Parsons.
NEIL
Where’s that?
EADY
New York City.
NEIL
How long you been here?
EADY
About a year.
NEIL
Like it?
EADY
Not really. I’m mostly here for the work.
NEIL
Live in this neighborhood?
EADY
No, I live kind of above Sunset Plaza.
It’s actually a kind of a… It’s a little house I rent.
And it’s kind of rundown,
but a beautiful, beautiful view.
What about you?
NEIL
I live up here.
(The dialogue continues in Neil’s room)
EADY
That’s very funny.
NEIL
Where’s your family from originally?
EADY
They’re Scots-Irish.
They emigrated to Appalachia…
…in the late 1700s.
Where are you from?
NEIL
The Bay area.
EADY
Your folks there?
NEIL
My mother died a long time ago,
and my father…
…I don’t know where he is.
Got a brother somewhere.
You have a tight family. I can tell.
EADY
Yeah.
NEIL
Right?
EADY
You’re right.
NEIL
City of lights….
In Fiji, they have these…
…iridescent algae that come out
once a year in the water.
That’s what it looks like out there.
EADY
You been there?
NEIL
No, I’m going there some day.
EADY
Oh, yeah… You travel a lot?
NEIL
Yeah.
EADY
Travelling makes you lonely?
NEIL
I’m alone. I am not…
…lonely. You?
EADY
Real lonely.
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