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Added: 29 April 2005
[Fiction] [Plays and Screenplays]

Doctor Schoneboom on the Campus

Persons represented:
Doctor Schoneboom: An exceedingly educated person.
John R. Schoneboom: A brilliant writer.
Maltravers: An undergraduate reading philosophy.
Lubeck: An undergraduate reading plant physiology.
Rowntree: A research student studying geomorphic rock structures.
David: A reluctant student.

Scene One: An Apartment in Sunnyside, New York. Early morning.

Doctor Schoneboom: Good Morning John.

John R Schoneboom: Good Morning Doctor Schoneboom

(exeunt)

Scene Two: The Campus. The same morning.

Maltravers: Good morning Doctor Schoneboom.

Doctor Schoneboom: Good morning Maltravers. How is your thesis developing?

Maltravers: I'm finding the Greeks a bit tricky on philosophy, Doctor Schoneboom.

Doctor Schoneboom: Well said Maltravers. As Aristotle said," the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand times."

Maltravers: Thank you Doctor Schoneboom.

(Doctor Schoneboom walks over the lawn)

Doctor Schoneboom: Good morning Lubeck.

Lubeck: Good morning Doctor Schoneboom.

Doctor Schoneboom: How are the new Pteridophytes? Don't forget to check boron levels?

Lubeck: Thank you Doctor Schoneboom.

(Doctor Schoneboom walks toward the fraternity house)

Rowntree: Good morning Doctor Schoneboom.

Doctor Schoneboom: Good morning Rowntree, you look rather worried?

Rowntree: Yes Doctor Schoneboom, the latest results don't calibrate.

Doctor Schoneboom: Umm, I've met this before. Probably igneous intrusion. Ignore it.

Rowntree: Thank you Doctor Schoneboom.

(Doctor Schoneboom has been attracted by Irish music in the background)

David: Good afternoon Doctor Schoneboom

Doctor Schoneboom: Good afternoon David, Have you completed that assignment I gave you.

David: It will be handed in on Tuesday, Doctor Schoneboom.

Doctor Schoneboom: That's fine. Off you go then.

David: Thank you Doctor Schoneboom.

(exeunt)

Scene Three. The Apartment in Sunnyside. Late at night.

John R Schoneboom : That was a swell day Doctor Schoneboom.

( lights fade to the sound of fading applause )