“Chapter 3: Lost Referents of Some Attraction” is composed of three scenes in landscapes: a salt flat, a beach, and a future nuclear power plant. Five characters wander on the edge of a narrative, anticipating employment into function and meaning. Like the landscape, these characters are extras on the periphery of an event, charged with desire of awaiting time and resolve. “Lost Referents of Some Attraction” is a chapter in a series of works titled “Records from the Excited State”—an ongoing project that conducts an analysis over time of biological and social rhythms of a site of leisure on the coastline of Egypt.