attempts on her life lines

2 - (These are the basic ingredients.)

And a river running through it.

2 - (The man?)

Older, troubled, sensitive, naturally.

2 - They both know this is wrong but they can’t help themselves. Exactly.

They’re making love in the man’s apartment.

2 - (Or one of the great Parisian boulevards.)

Or one of the great, exactly, Parisian / boulevards.

2 - (That kind of man.)

That kind of grunt.

2 - (A writhing mass.)

The light, the golden mass, these are the / essential ingredients.

2 - (A doubt)

A look of doubt, yes, good, crosses Anne’s face.

2 - (Even now in the intensity of her passion.)

Even now in the intensity of her passion a kind of shadow crosses her face.

2 - (Well yes, of course premonitory is a word.)

Later. Night.

2 - (End of dialogue.)

And now she’s angry - exactly: end of dialogue - and now she’s angry. She’s angry because she knows exactly who it is.

2 - (The basic ingredients in other words of a whole tragedy.)

A whole, exactly, tragedy unfolds before our eyes in Paris, Prague, Venice or Berlin to name but four, as the moon, vast and orange, rises over the renaissance domes, baroque palaces, nineteenth-century zoos and railway stations, and modernist slabs of social house exemplifying the dictum form follows function.

2 - (She begins to shout)

she begins to beat him with her fists.

2 - (she begins to kick him with her bare white feet)

she beats and beats / and beats.

2 - (Let’s say she finally, shall we, stops, at this point, for breath.)

The woman?

2 - (And he?)

bows his head.

2 - (takes Anne’s tear-stained face between his hands like a precious chalice.)

or a rugby football.

2 - (a great tragedy in other words of love.)

a great - exactly - tragedy of ideology / and love.

4 - She’s…

the kind of person who believes the message on the till receipt.

4 - (What? A cup of tea?)

Yes. Then sits at the kitchen table to open it. She opens it and reads it as carefully as if it were a letter from her own son, who now lives in America.

5 - the

camera loves you

5 - (the camera loves you)

the camera loves you

5 - (we need to synthesise)

we need to advertise that

5 - (we need to advertise that)

we are the good guys

we are the good guys

5 - A megastar

megastar? the fuck you are.

the camera loves you

the camera loves you

the camera the camera

the camera the camera

the camera the camera

the camera the camera

THE CAMERA LOVES YOU

6 - (it’s not her first attempt)

it shouldn’t be her first attempt. she’s tried at various times. even before she leaves home she tries, doesn’t she?

6 - (we live through these harrowing times)

we see photos, don’t we.

6 - (oh yes, it’s a genuinely happy smile alright.)

because no one’s forcing her, no one’s forcing her to smile, are they?

6 - (no question of it)

‘she enjoys hosting these holidays because she loves meeting people. she will introduce you to your fellow guests ensuring that everyone has a memorable time.’

6 - (smiles from all over the world)

People from all over the world. People from all over the world photographed with Annie. Smiling with Annie. Characters I suppose who just popped in and out of her life.

6 - (Porno, actually, some of them)

Porno? Come on. Hardly.

6 - (Pretty pornographic, actually, some of those pictures.)

I’d hardly call it pornographic, just high spirits. Just the high spirits you’d expect of a girl who’s always smiling, always laughing, always on the move, always meeting someone, always leaving someone, always in a departure lounge or a bus station or waiting by an airport carousel or sleeping in the corridor of a train.

6 - (South America)

you name it

6 - (Romania)

Nigeria.

6 - (The Philippines.)

Morocco.

6 - (Florida)

Australia.

6 - (The Sahara Desert)

The Kalahari Desert

6 - (The Foothills of the Alps)

that’s right - the what’s it called -

6 - (Because, let’s face it, she is concerned.)

Well of course she’s concerned. We can see that she’s concerned. You only have to see her for example in those photos, the way she’s rubbing shoulders with the poor. She’s not afraid in those photos to rub shoulders with the poor.

6 - (it’s quite clear that her mind’s made up.)

It’s not a cry for help. It’s very important to establish that, wouldn’t you agree, from the outset. It’s very important to establish that no one could’ve helped her at that point.

6 - (help is the last thing she would’ve wanted.)

She enjoys spending lots of time with guests, and gets a feeling of great satisfaction when everyone is having a good time. She says there are lots of hugs at the station when it’s time to go home, with holidaymakers waving and calling out ‘see you next time’ from the train window.

6 - (some of the strange things she says to her Mum and Dad as a child: I feel like a screen.

‘I feel like a screen.’

6 - (…whiter in fact than the pillow)

‘Like a TV screen,’ she says, ‘where everything from the front looks real and alive, but round the back there’s just dust and a few wires.’

‘Dust and a few wires.’ Her imagination…

6 - (she wants her own little room and a gun and a list of names)

‘Targets.’

7 - (the car twists along the Mediterrean road)

it hugs the bends between the picturesque hillside villages.

7 - (Sleek.)

Free.

7 - (We now understand that all the things other manufacturers offer as extras…)

…are offered on the Anny as standard.

7 - (…just as the adults will be relaxed and confident at the wheel.)

Happy.

7 - (…as she parks outside the halogen-lit shoe shops of the great cities.)

When we arrive at out destination in the Anny…

7 - (Or shot)

The two-litre Anny achieves excellent milage in the simulated urban cycle…

7 - (nor in the sun-filled landscapes through which the Anny drives)

No-one in the Anny lies cheats or steals.

7 - (there is no room in the Anny for the degenerate races…)

…for the mentally deficient…

7 - (Since this is a limited offer.)

The Anny crosses the Brooklyn Bridge.

7 - (Fast)

Sleek.

7 - (No one every packs the Anny with explosives to achieve a political objective. )

No man ever rapes and kills a woman in the Anny before tipping her body out at a red light along with the contents of the ashtray.

7 - (Slippery by blood.)

Slippery by beer.

7 - (Or sticky by melted chocolate.)

Melted chocolate. Yum yum yum.

7 On…

the road price includes VAT, number plates, delivery and sixth months’ road fund licence.