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There’s a scarred up, blond-wood console housing a TV and radio/record-player. The console’s flat top is crowded with dozens of old photographs in tiny frames. Some have little pieces of tape attached scrawled upon with the names of those depicted. The TV is tuned to a brassy 24-hour news station while the radio is playing soothing classical music. There’s SOMEONE sitting on a broad-bottomed ribbon-laced green and cream colored chair set before the console. All we see is the back of his black bald head. Our POV, after having traveled around Methuselah's Maze, settles on the face of the old man PTOLEMY GREY (male, black, confused, 93 years old). His chin has three days growth. NEWSCASTER ...a bomb exploded in Kabul RADIO ANNOUNCER
We just heard Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Number Two in F Major and now we are going to hear Viola Concerto in G Major by Georg Philipp Telemann.
today killing 14. Three Americans were among...
PTOLEMY Tell the man? Is that what you said? Huh? Tell him what? Ptolemy really seems to expect an answer. COYDOG (O.S.) Stop playin’ ‘round, Pity.
Ptolemy turns his head to see who it is that has spoken. This simple motion is a long journey for the old man; he travels through time and space taking us to...
INT. SHARECROPPER’S SHACK, CIRCA 1928 - NIGHT We are mostly in the shack but in some places the ramshackle cottage shares its dimension with the hoarder’s apartment. Ptolemy comes face to face with COYDOG McCANN (black, 40s, small, wiry, sly). PTOLEMY Coydog? COYDOG What you doin’?
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