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| '''EXT. SPACE - EARTH - TORONTO - SUBURB - HILLSIDE PARK - DAY'''
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| {{highlight |Continued |#88FF88}}...
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| CELESTE wraps up singing her 'Cosmic Rhyme' song as our [[cosmic zoom]] view arrives at Earth, descending across North America towards the [[Greater Toronto]] area, where it's like any other day, nearly identical to present day, yet the year is about 2050, give or take five or six years.


The camera descends through clouds, into a suburb of Toronto, past surveillance drones, swoops under a railway bridge over a small creek, to a river-side city park, traces along a paved pedestrian exercise path, where a man walks as his daughter circles him on her BICYCLE.


The aerial drone camera angled downward circles around them slowly, from a distance, gradually getting closer, yet we never quite see his face.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| CELESTE's 'Cosmic Rhyme' song concludes.
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| Near the end or after her song, soundtrack music may be introduced (without dissonance) to set the mood.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| Good. What does all of that mean? Sounds like science fiction at the end.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| I don't know yet. We just started this term. I can learn anything in songs. HOPE says I'll get it when I'm older.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| They tell everybody that - about everything.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| Who are 'they'?
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| Who knows. Folks who know?
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| HOPE knows.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| Maybe.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| CELESTE stops on her BIKE and points off the path.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| ERNEST then pushes her and her BIKE, off the path over steeper grass, like [[Sisyphus]] pushed a boulder up hill. Until he can't.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| CELESTE, like a robot:
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| In-ject na-no oxy-gen.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| ERNEST, like a robot:
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| Hey. That's my line.
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| ERNEST wears a stylish JACKET of unique textiles with many practical features. From his top left pocket he pulls out a few PENS and puts all but one back. He taps his forearm sleeve screen a few times then pushes it up to inject himself with the oxygen PEN, then double taps a little device on his antique watch's strap. He checks the PEN and puts it back in his JACKET pocket.
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| They abandon the BIKE and ERNEST lifts little CELESTE, his world, like [[Atlas (mythology) |Atlas]], up onto his shoulders and continues to hike up the hill without fatigue.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| Soon I won't be able to do this with you anymore.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| We're climbing the mountain!
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| You mean I am climbing - with a monkey on my back.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Celeste}}
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| Monkeys can't yodel like I can. HOPE play my yodel song.
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: vHOPE}}
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| In a very old-fashioned computerized androgynous voice....
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| Bleep blorp.
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| From nowhere, [[Frank Ifield]]'s "[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Frank+Ifield+She+Taught+Me+How+To+Yodel She Taught Me How To Yodel]" plays and they sing along. Keen observers may later see his smart-JACKET has embedded audio speaker panels.
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| The camera follows them as they approach and walk under the leafy branches of a [[majestic]] [[hilltop]] [[hardwood]] TREE overlooking a [[bucolic]] [[vista]].
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Characters: Ernest}}
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| ERNEST points to an abandoned BAG leaned against the TREE, the camera swings close around to finally see a medium two-shot of CELESTE on ERNEST's shoulders and a clear view of their faces. ERNEST gestures downhill,...
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| Do you see who's BAG that is?
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{{Bittersweet Seeds: Audio: Act 1A Scene 0040}}


'''Foreshadowing'''

A keen reader may notice upon second reading, unknown to the characters much of the dialogue is predictive and/or foreshadowing, especially in Act 1A.  Many of these are inversed and opposite for a variety of reasons, such as irony, sarcasm, to indicate error or ignorance, or to mislead via character or narrative, etc.  (eg. "We're all gonna be fine." - then they all die.  Or vice versa.)


'''Setting'''

The train tracks, bridge, and stream/river set themes while foreshadowing later events.


'''Celeste's absent character arch''' : {{highlight round |Poor |bc=#FFCCCC}}

I have yet to come up with a character arch for their daughter, defaulting to a passive bland child.


'''Celine's absent character arch''' : {{highlight round |Lacks |bc=#FFF8BB}}

While I have some stuff for Celine's arch, it's not enough, nor with a grander purpose.  I don't simply want another bland supportive wife character.


Suggestions welcome.


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