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Joe is a newspaper photographer and Tess is a marketing analyst. They met on a flight to Beijing and have since attempted to have dinner together. Joe has invited Tess to his New York apartment as he feels guilty about the way he treated her in the restaurant when they last met. She looks at some particularly distressing images that he has taken in places such as Gaza and Sudan, and realizes the dangerous situations he places himself in. She is amazed to discover that he no longer believes his
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START: JOE. And you found it okay?
TESS. Your streets are too long.
JOE. Well, you’ll have to take that up with the Dutch. You want a beer?
TESS. I can’t stay.
JOE. No, sure, I just wanted to – I felt kind of awful, about how I spoke to you the
other night, and – anyway so I sorted through my China archive.
[... …]
TESS. They can control the weather, you know.
JOE. What?
TESS. In Beijing. They fire rockets, into the sky, to disperse the clouds.
If they don’t want it to rain, then it doesn’t. Terrifying.
She looks around; at JOE, and at his gloomy apartment.
I’m going to buy you a lamp.
Lucy Kirkwood. Chimerica. NHB (electronic edition). pp.71-78.
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