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October 20th, 2020

Starring: A & B

The beach.  It is very crowded.  A sits in a beach chair, surveying the shore.  B is lying down, reading a novel:

A

Hey

B

Hm?

A

Question.

B

Let me finish this page.

After a little, B finishes the page.

B

What’s up?

A

Do you think I’m selfish?

… 

Do you?

B

I’m not answering. 

A

Why?

B

I don’t come to the beach to get existential.  

A

Well I don’t come to read.

B

You want to contemplate existence?  Go swim.  Build a sandcastle and then destroy it.

A

There’s too many people.

B

It was your idea.

A

And had I known that everyone else was going to have the same idea, I wouldn't've.

It was selfish to assume noone would.

...

Can you pass the PB&Js?

B

Let me finish the page.

B finishes, then passes a canvas bag to A.

A

Do you want crunchy or smooth?

B

It doesn’t matter.

A

But if you had to pick.

...

B

Crunchy.

A

Ok.

I’ll have smooth then.

....

B

You just proved it.

A

What?

B

You’re not selfish.

A

Really?

B

Why else would you ask?

A

Oh.

Yeah, I guess.

… 

I’ll eat later.

I think I’m going to swim.

B

Good.

A

Don’t miss me.

B

Ok.

A gets up and walks towards the ocean.  B keeps on reading.

END OF PLAY

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