The Plays
Another Person is a Foreign Country [sample]
by Charles L. Mee
TWIN 2
What would be wrong with that?
MIKE
Right.
TWIN 1
You could say, I'm not a hermaphrodite.
MIKE
No.
TWIN 2
What would be wrong with that?
MIKE
Right.
TWIN 1
And yet, this is how these tragedies so often begin.
[silence]
ETHYL
People lack a sense of the exquisite.
JENNIFER
I wish I had a sense of the exquisite.
MIKE
An Oriental sense.
JENNIFER
Yes. For instance, to think there are some things that you can't compare to anything else. For instance, when you've stopped loving someone, you feel as though the person you love has become someone else completely, even though actually he is still the same person.
MIKE
A sense of the uniqueness of things.
JENNIFER
Or sometimes you look at the branches of the camphor tree, and you see how tangled they are. They make a person feel estranged from the tree in a
way and yet it's because the tree is divided into so many branches that sometimes the image of the tree is used to describe people in love.
