Church Rock am Highway 160, east of Kayenta (Arizona)
Scene 10: Enigma
How Hektor Maille encountered the Marlboro Man, then saw only drunken dinosaurs in the landscape and ultimately concluded that it must be a Catholic secret society that was in charge of everything in the place – in the dim and distant past of the holy firewater for the natives and, in later times, for the laugh of John Wayne.
One Day in the Life of Odette Sissay
12.35: Port-Louis, Vieux Port, in front of the Aquarium
Earlier, her father Koslow too had been quite happy to play around with his machines. At the end of the 1970s he and his team had progressed, for the first time, to the point of being able to tele-transport objects with the help of a tiny module they mamaged to place onto one of the first satellites of the Meteosat-type. The problem at the time was that the things under tele-transportation re-materialised at both the point of origin and the destination and everything suddenly existed in double. That, of course, did not correspond to the goals of the ORM, whose task was to avert dangerous cyclones, not to double the risk.