The Museum of Lost Things (2018)

Steven Platt: The Museum Guest

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• The Museum Guest : I started heading towards my favorite record shop. I was probably intending to find a recording to replace one I'd lost. It could have been music by Chopin or Schumann. Or maybe it was something by Schubert or Shostakovich or Schoenberg. For some reason I have an interest only in composers whose names begin with a "sh" sound.

• The Museum Guest : Hey, is this some sort of lost and found?

  The Guard : What's on display depends on what you've lost. It's all about the person who walks in. Only one visitor can occupy a room at any given time, and the exhibition changes in accordance with each individual. The rooms, you might say, are customized. Don't ask me how it works. I haven't a clue and it's not my job to know.

• The Museum Guest : I started losing my hair since 30. You got a room for that?

  The Guard : That room isn't too far. But you won't, of course, be able to get any of it back.

• The Guard : What about this one? The room of lost opportunity.

  The Museum Guest : I don't think so.

  The Guard : You don't know what you're missing.

• The Museum Guest : This is all you have? You mean your museum didn't have enough funding to bring my lost lovers? Are there at least pictures of them in this folder?

  The Guard : Go have a look at it. But don't think you can take it with you. It belongs to the past.

• The Museum Guest : In the movie version Chopin's preludes will be playing in the background. I'm not even sure it would work as a film. It hardly works as a short story.

• The Museum Guest : He sees the whole history of the affair slowly being erased in front of his eyes. In front of his French onion soup.

• The Waitress : Sounds like he was groping for trout in a peculiar river!

  The Museum Guest : Excuse me?

  The Waitress : What? You don't know Shakespeare? Measure for measure?

  The Waitress : An affair!

  The Museum Guest : Oh. Right! It was an affair!