at Swedish National Heritage Board

Mark: Ok so … Okay. Where is Frank? Okay. Where is Frank? Here he comes. Did you find a place to park, Frank?
Frank: Oh No problem. No problem. Have you got the table?
Mark: Yeah. Ok.
Frank: Let’s go and sit down and eat some nice food.

at Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

(harmonica music)
Mark: Ok well here I am. I am just walking in to the…I am just walkin’ in to the Brooklyn Cafe down in Brooklyn, Mosquito City and someone is playing the harmonica in the corner here. This is like… a nice place. I am going to sit down in the corner.…and I am going to wait for my friend, Frank. OK. … Here is a table. … And here are two chairs.

at Keene Public Library

Mark: OK. well. I am sitting in Frank’s car and we are just driving under the overpass and we have just left Mosquito City and we are in Brooklyn now and there is the fire station on my right. We are turning left. Is that public housing?
Frank: Oh no. No. I am going to stop here. You just…I will let you off and you get a table in the cafe and I will see you later.
Mark: OK. OK. I will see you in a minute.
Frank: See you in a bit.
Mark: OK.

at Library of Congress

Mark: Ok. I am finished work. It is five twenty-five and I am ready to…I am going to go down to Brooklyn with my boss, Frank and he is going to introduce me to some of his friends. He has got some artist friends who live down in that part of town and I might be able to find an apartment down there. Frank! Are you finished?
Frank: Well, I am finished. I am waiting for you.
Mark: Ok. Well.
Frank: The car’s outside.
Mark: Ok mate. Let’s go.
Frank: Yeah. Let’s go.

at Library of Congress

Mark: Well here I am at work now at the Mosquito Herald and here is my boss, Frank. Hello Frank.
Frank: Mark! Come on in.
Mark: How are you today?
Frank: I feel great.
Mark: Good. Good.
Frank: Fantastic. How about yourself?
Mark: I feel pretty good but I have got a problem. I need a place to stay. I have to move out of the hotel and I need my own place. I am thinking of getting a place down in Brooklyn . That is nice part of town. Do you know a real estate agent or do you know of any apartments that are free?
Frank: Well I actually know of some apartments because I have got some artist friends.
Mark: Right. Ok
Frank: …and musician friends.
Mark: Can you introduce me to your friends and…?
Frank: Yes. Certainly.
Mark: Ok. That would be great . Ok. Thanks mate. Well. After work today?
Frank: After work.
Mark: Ok.
Frank: See you later.
Mark: Lets go down after work. Ok?
Frank: No problem.
Mark: Thanks. See you.
Frank: Bye.

at MorBCN

Mark: Hello there Brad. How are you?
Brad: Just a moment there.
Mark: What are you eating there?
Brad: I am eating this delicious apple.
Mark: Wow!
Brad: Sorry about this.
Mark: That is all right.
Brad: It is a very special apple. It is a …Mosquito Bay apple… Mosquito City apple.
Mark: Right. Ok. How are you today?
Brad: I feel great. How about yourself?
Mark: I feel ok. I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that Frank… that my boss Frank was my friend Peter…
Brad: That is right. I know who you are talking about.
Mark: And Peter was Frank and Peter’s sister, Stephanie was Peter..was Frank. It was kind of strange.
Brad: What do you mean? What are you talking about? A dream or reality?
Mark: Yeah I had a dream where everybody was everybody else.
Brad: Well that happens to me all the time. I have so many absolutely strange dreams. But the thing is with the strange dreams…how do you feel? How does it make you feel?
Mark: After your dream?
Brad: Yeah. After your dream.
Mark: Right ok.
Brad: How does it make you feel?
Mark: That is the important thing?
Brad: Well for me it is.
Mark: Right Ok.
Brad: And for you if you stay in Mosquito Bay, it will become.
Mark: Calm?
Brad: Become.
Mark: It’ll become?
Brad: It’ll become. Yeah.
Mark: Become? Become calm? Become calm.
Brad: Oh definitely. Calm.
Mark: I want to be calm.
Brad: You will be calm.
Mark: Oh my god! I have got to get to work. It is Monday morning. See you later, Brad.
Brad: Have a nice day.
Mark: You too mate.
Brad: (?)

at MorBCN

Mark: Ok. Well. I have been here for a couple of weeks now. In Mosquito City. And I have got a job and I have made friends with the richest man in town: Peter Bestluck, and I have met his sister and I am making a lot of friends and I am having a great time. This is a really great place. But something is kind of weird…. like…. I just went to work today and I was talking to my boss, Frank, about finding a place to live down in Brooklyn and he started to talk to me and suddenly he shimmered and changed shape and he turned into Peter and he turned back into Frank and he turned into Peter again. Is it you Peter, or is it Frank? What is going on here? Are you Frank or Peter?
Frank: Nh…
Mark: Are you ok? Are you ok?
Frank: Well ahm..
Mark: Are you ok?

(the sound of slapping)

Mark: I am just slapping him here. I am trying to get him to like…wake up.…Are you ok?

(the sound of slapping)

Frank: Well. ham …ah well ahm… ah… Hey Mark! How are you doing?
Mark: I am doing…
Frank: What is the problem?
Mark: No problem. No problem.
Frank: Take a seat. You know? Relax. I will tell you one thing because I am aware of what may be happening. I am aware you are having strange…there is a strange contradiction, isn’t there?
Mark: Something is funny here. Peter? Is it Peter or Frank?
Frank: Well. This is a very strange place. Quite a few, what I would say are magical things, happen here.
Mark: You mean… some people are other people?
Frank: No, it may seem like that but it is not quite…
Mark: Who am I talking to? Are you Peter or Frank?
Stephanie: No, I am Stephanie.
Mark: Stephanie! Stephanie! it is you! Stephanie!
Stephanie: You have just woken up from a very strange dream. If you get out of bed and walk around you might feel better.
Mark: Ok. It is ME! I am the one who is dreaming. That is what it is. I am the one who is dreaming.
Stephanie: If you just take a walk out and see the beautiful sea…
Mark: Now. Ok. Stephanie. Oh Stephanie!

(the sound of an alarm)

Mark: It is you! It is all a dream but I wish it was real. Oh it is Monday morning. I have to go to work!

at M J M

Mark: Ok. It’s Monday morning and I have to go to work. Ok. I am going to walk to work. Ok. It is not very far. Ok. Here we are. Here we are. The Mosquito Herald. Ok. I am going in to work now I am just walking inside and there is my boss. Hi Frank!
Frank: Hi Mark. How are you doing? Walk in. How was it?
Mark: Sorry?
Frank: How was the interview?
Mark: With Peter?
Frank: Yes. Of course. With Peter?
Mark: Great. Great.
Peter: Oh. Great.
Mark: I have written a couple of pieces. You didn’t get those emails? Did you get those emails?
Yeah, we did. We did. We did. I haven’t opened them yet.
Mark: Good. Good.
Frank: I’ll open them now.
Mark: Ok. Frank?
Frank: Yeah?
Mark: Do you mind if I ask you you a question?
Frank: Go ahead.
Mark: I need a place to live and I am like…Brooklyn…I was thinking of moving into Brooklyn. How do you find a place to live in Mosquito City. Like ah…?
Frank: You couldn’t have thought of a better place than Brooklyn to live
Mark: Yeah?
Frank: Do you like… But there again it is very arty. Do you like art and music?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Frank: Oh it is buzzing with art and music.
Mark: Everybody likes art and music.
Frank: Oh yeah. The cafes. Beaming with amazing sounds. You know?
Mark: Right? Ok. Ok. So you are talking like a studio apartment… atelier type thing?
Frank: Yeah. Yeah. There are some great ones. In fact I have one.
Mark: You live down in Brooklyn?
Frank: I know you want to sort things out yourself. You know…You are an adult. But I have a perfect place in Brooklyn.
Mark: Really?
Frank: And it is empty.
Mark: Really?
Frank: It is empty. It is extraordinary.
Mark: It is your place or…?
Frank: Of course.
Mark: It is your place?
Frank: I own half of Brooklyn.
Mark: You own half of Brooklyn?
Frank: I am the richest man here. You know? I mean… I don’t want to sound deceitful…
Mark: Richer than Peter Bestluck?
Frank: What is the word? Conceited. That is the word?
Mark: Richer than Peter Bestluck?
Frank: Oh! (laughs)
Mark: Hang on a minute! Peter! Frank! Frank! Peter! It’s you! Frank, you are Peter! Peter, you are Frank! Oh my god! Peter Bestluck! You are Frank. Frank, you are Peter Bestluck!
Frank: Hang on! Hang on! My goodness. I just had this strange dream. I lost my consciousness. Is everything ok? Sorry take a seat. I will make you a cup of tea.

at denis collette

Mark: Ok so I am sitting in the back of my friend Peter’s limousine and we are driving back from his castle; Mt Sphinx Castle. We are just driving through the streets of the old heritage village; Mt Sphinx Heritage Village. Peter is giving me a lift home. It was really nice to meet your sister today, Peter.
Peter: I have just been on the phone to Stephanie and she thinks you are a very very special guy.
Mark: Really?
Peter: Mm. That’s right.
Mark: I thought she was really nice too.
Peter: Oh fantastic! I am so glad to hear it. I thought there was some sort of chemistry when I watched you talking.
Mark: Yeah. She is a very very nice person. Very calm and gentle. Interesting too.
Peter: She is. She is a great person.
Mark: Everybody is nice here. This is such a great place. I am just so happy to be alive.
Peter: mm.
Mark: I do have a bit of a problem though.
Peter: What is that?
Mark: Well not really a problem but you know how when I came here I got some free accommodation in the hotel? And I have to leave the hotel and get my own place so I need a place to live so I have to think about finding a room or an apartment or a house or somewhere. I have got a pretty good job so I might rent a house. What is Brooklyn like? Is that a nice place to live?
Peter: Brooklyn is pretty good. Yeah.
Mark: Some people live in Mt Sphinx. Some people live in Brooklyn.
Peter: Well look! I tell you what. You see that jungle over there?
Mark: Yeah.
Peter: There is a banana leaf hut. You can rent that.
Mark: I…I…
Peter: I am only joking. Look. I have got another castle very close to mine. You can just use it. It’s empty anyway. I mean there’s servants and there is a swimming pool.
Mark: Oh Peter that is very kind of you but really I have got to get my own place I mean you are very generous.
Peter: Do you like a sauna in the mornings?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Peter: And you like breakfast cooked exactly the way you want it?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Peter: Ok and do you like clean sheets on your bed?
Mark: Yes. Yes I do?
Peter: And do you like the most exquisite garden to walk in in the mornings?
Mark: I do like exquisite gardens.
Peter: And do you like a motor launch to use at any time you want?
Mark: A hydrogen powered motor launch?! A totally clean…?
Peter: Of course. Well think about it anyway. You know? Where are you gonna move now, if you are not gonna…?
Mark: You are too kind. This is too much. I am embarrassed Peter. You have been so kind to me. Everybody has been so good to me since I got here. I…This is just too much. You are so kind. Really. I am overwhelmed.

(crying)

Peter: Come on.
Mark: It is so beautiful.
Peter: Mark, you are such a great guy. You are having a little…it is like almost therapy, isn’t it? You know? Mosquito Bay is like therapy, isn’t it? Just take a seat on the sofa and relax and cry with happiness.
Mark: Everybody has been so kind to me since I came here.
Peter: Cry with happiness! Because you are now…
Mark: Life is so good. Life is so good!

(hysterical laughing)

at The Library of Congress

Mark: Ok. Well here I am. I am standing on the balcony of Sphinx Castle. Peter Bestluck’s castle and…Peter…
Peter: Mark, what do you think of the view? Isn’t it absolutely extraordinary?
Mark: It’s lovely. I can see Brooklyn over there.
Peter: Panoramic view.
Mark: Yes. Mt Sphinx behind us.
Peter: That’s right and you can see the kind of tropical rain forest over there to your left.
Mark: Yeah, and behind us the Mosquito City Trade Towers.
Peter: That’s right.
Mark: Yeah. Where your office is.
Peter: Anyway let me just interrupt for a minute. I’ve got somebody…you may have noticed another person on the balcony.
Mark: Oh and who is this?
Peter: I think I told you about her?
Mark: Your sister?
Peter: My sister.
Mark: Please introduce me.
Peter: Come over here. This is Stephanie.
Mark: Hello Stephanie. My name is Mark.
Stephanie: Hello how are you?
Mark: Nice to meet you.
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am having a great time.
Stephanie: Oh that is so wonderful. Well what can I say? It is so wonderful to have you here. My brother has been telling me so much about you.
Mark: Really?
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am really having a good time.
Stephanie: What are you doing?
Mark: Well, I have got this great new job and I have made friends with Peter and he has shown me all these wonderful places and I have met all these friendly people and there is fresh food and the air is so fresh and Peter tells me there is no pollution here and I went to the university and I interviewed a doctor there and… building the hydrogen engine … This is a fantastic country. I wish all countries were like this.
Stephanie: I can see you are going to have a good time. You have only been here for a very short time, haven’t you?
Mark: Yes. Yes.
Stephanie: How long is it?
Mark: It is only a week now.
Stephanie: Only a week?
Mark: Only a week. But I think I am going to stay here forever.
Stephanie: Oh really?
Mark: Yeah.
Stephanie: Oh. That is fantastic because I would love to take you around…
Mark: Oh that would be great.
Stephanie: …the island.
Mark: That would be great. What do you do anyway? Do you? Do you have a regular job?
Stephanie: I do want I want.
Mark: Or are you a student or…?
Stephanie: I am student…all my life.
Mark: Right.
Stephanie: A student of life.
Mark: I suppose you are from a wealthy family. You don’t really have to work. So you just spend your time studying.
Stephanie: Well we do many things but it is all because we want to do them.
Mark: Right. Right. I came from a poor family and I had to work hard to make a living but since I came to Mosquito City, life is so easy.
Stephanie: You must be very strong to have that sort of history.
Mark: Well I mean … I say “poor family” My family wasn’t that poor . Like I…You know…I…There is a lot of poverty in the world. I wasn’t really poor like in some places.
Stephanie: You look very very healthy.
Mark: Thank you. You look fairly healthy yourself.
Stephanie: And also you look very very strong.
Mark: You are making me blush.
Stephanie: Oh! I am so sorry. Would you like a glass of wine?