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Joe is a newspaper photographer and Tess is a marketing analyst. They
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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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