(JOHN and DAVID are walking down a street together, in Basel Switzerland)

JOHN
So you’re saying I’m not really here.

DAVID
You’re here – it’s just that you’re only here in my head. You’re a character in this play.

JOHN
And what are you?

DAVID
I’m the writer…

JOHN
Then why are you here, walking next to me?

DAVID
I wrote myself into the scene.

JOHN
So you’re a character too… since you’re here…

DAVID
I mean, sure… in this scene…

JOHN
…and I’m really here too, in this scene.

DAVID
I mean – sure. But I’m real.

JOHN
You mean in this scene – this is really you?

DAVID
No I mean… no… in this scene this is me, as a character..

JOHN
Like me.

DAVID
Yeah.

JOHN
So you’re not real. Or I am real, like you?

DAVID
Wait a minute…

(The End)