Before the Sunset by Laura Pavlov EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Laura Pavlov
- Language: English
- Genre: Western & Frontier Romance
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Fade in.
1 INTERIOR: TRAIN—AFTERNOON
The Eurail rolls along. Inside, passengers sleep, read, and stare out
the window. A few walk up and down the aisles. CELINE, a young
woman in her mid-twenties, is curled up in her seat reading
Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye. Strikingly attractive, she plays it
down by wearing no makeup, a loose-fitting vintage dress, and flat
shoes. She continues reading while taking an occasional bite of a
chocolate bar. Sitting four rows back and on the other side of the
aisle, JESSE, also mid-twenties, is engrossed in Klaus Kinski’s
memoir, All I Need Is Love. Casually good-looking but a little
scruffy, he dresses in the jeans and T-shirt mode. Suddenly a couple,
two fortyish types who have been arguing semiquietly in the seat
behind CELINE, start yelling at each other in German. The WIFE takes
a swipe at the newspaper the HUSBAND has been screening himself
behind.
WIFE
Will you put down that damn newspaper and listen to me?
HUSBAND
What’ve I been doing the last thirty minutes? Would you shut up for
Chrissake?
WIFE
You shut up! How dare you tell me to shut up! It’s the same damn
thing all over again! I can’t believe—
HUSBAND
I said shut up! I’m putting down my newspaper and telling you to
shut up.
CELINE suddenly gets up, grabs her bag, and starts looking for
another seat. A few rows back, she finds a seat across the aisle from
JESSE. Before sitting down, they make brief eye contact and kind of
shake their heads and smile at the tension. Just as she settles in and
goes back to her book, the WIFE gets up and storms down the aisle.
JESSE and CELINE follow her with their eyes, and as she passes them
they find they are looking right at each other. He makes a funny
“uh-oh” face.
JESSE
Do you have any idea what they’re arguing about? Do you speak
English?
CELINE
Yes. But no, I don’t know. My German is not that good.
(a beat)
Have you ever heard that as couples get older they lose their ability
to hear each other?
JESSE
Really?
CELINE
Supposedly men lose their ability to hear higher-pitched sounds and
women eventually lose hearing on the low end. I guess they sort of
nullify each other or something.
JESSE
Must be nature’s way of allowing couples to grow old together and
not kill each other, I guess.
There’s a slightly awkward moment where they don’t know if they
should continue talking or not. She glances back down at her book
but he keeps looking at her.
JESSE
What are you reading?
She holds up the book so he can see what it is.
CELINE
How about you?
He shows her what he’s reading. Neither has much to say about the
other’s reading material.
CELINE
There are so many weird people on the train, no? Last week on my
way to Budapest I was sitting and talking with four other people in
the lounge car and it turned out that three of them had killed people.
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