<div dir="auto"><div>2:50: Guy with German-ish accen talks about suicide. 'Each of us has contemplated suicide...'</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is Brother Theodore, a strange character, he used to appear on Letterman a lot. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Theodore">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Theodore</a></div><div dir="auto"><br>6:20: A fellow with a German-ish accent (sounds like a different guy) remembers winter in Erfurt. A woman broke her leg</div><div dir="auto">skiing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This one is Tim Jerome, doing a rarely heard variation of his eastern european guy. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Voltgen is indeed Arthur Miller<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">17:30: Someone (German-ish accent) tells about Glemp (sp?) who had a camera...</div><div dir="auto">This is Tim Jerome</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">24:40: The first fellow with a German-ish accent recalls the soldier who attacked the enemy armed with only a can opener...</div><div dir="auto">Brother Theodore again</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">He also makes a memorable appearance as the Messiah in The Decline of Spengler</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Sean</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 6, 2021, 10:46 AM <<a href="mailto:russellbell@gmail.com">russellbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Joe (using second person) tells about landing in a plane,<br>
looking down on the city. Pilots land the plane safely despite engine<br>
failure. Joe compares how the city looks on the ground with how it<br>
looked from the air.<br>
<br>
2:50: Guy with German-ish accent (Tim Jerome?) talks about<br>
suicide. 'Each of us has contemplated suicide...'<br>
<br>
4:20: Joe describes walking along Vladek (sp?) avenue. A guy<br>
(Larry Block?) begs change; a woman invites his attention; squatters<br>
live in vacant lots; chickens and goats graze.<br>
<br> 6:20: A fellow with a German-ish accent (sounds like a</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">different guy) remembers winter in Erfurt. A woman broke her leg</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">skiing.<br>
<br>
7:20: A woman recalls dinner, seeing an acrobat with no arms<br>
and legs in San Nemo; she was engaged to John.<br>
<br>
8:10: A man remembers the summer they (apparently he and a<br>
woman) went to the sea.<br>
<br>
9:00: Joe tells about the star worshippers, their equipment,<br>
their gowns, dancing to drums.<br>
<br>
9:20: Voltgen, founder of Electricist (sp?) religion (Arthur<br>
Miller?), one of the many sects that have sprung up in the city, talks<br>
to Alex, a novice; he explains Electricism, ruminates on darkness and<br>
light.<br>
<br>
12:00: Joe tells of Voltgen ushering Alex into a worship<br>
service. Voltgen leads a service, which features a large filament,<br>
culminates with electrical arcs.<br>
<br>
14:40: Alex arrives home; his wife Eva (Barbara Sohmers)<br>
greets him. They have a drink.<br>
<br>
17:30: Someone (German-ish accent) tells about Glemp (sp?) who<br>
had a camera, took pictures of everything. At the end of the season<br>
he took his film to the lab, which destroyed them, leaving only<br>
memories.<br>
<br>
18:30: Joe tells of the rain falling on everyone in the<br>
streets.<br>
<br>
19:00: Eva tells what she did during the day to Alex. He<br>
bathes her. (Accompanied by 'Peace piece' (Bill Evans)).<br>
<br>
20:20: Joe tells of a fellow walking on a mountain path, who<br>
sees a speck rising above the desert. It turns into a giant wave that<br>
forms the shape of giant white horses, then a giant man.<br>
<br>
21:50: Having prepared Eva's bath, Alex puts her in the water.<br>
(She can't walk.) She wonders why they haven't made love in months,<br>
wonders if he still wants her.<br>
<br>
24:40: The first fellow with a German-ish accent recalls the<br>
soldier who attacked the enemy armed with only a can opener, suggests<br>
he may have been suicidal, not heroic.<br>
<br>
25:30: Alex recalls returning to the same hotel by the sea<br>
years later.<br>
<br>
26:20: Joe tells of a helicopter flying overhead, a man in a<br>
phone booth.<br>
<br>
27:10: Joe describes images of the city at night, the<br>
tree-folk, the people of the law (who recite laws that sound like<br>
parody Leviticus).<br>
<br>
28:40: Joe tells of 'wrestling' matches, the first between a<br>
caveman with a tree and a baron who weighs 2,695 stone (about 20<br>
tons), the second between a giant beetle and an Irish washerwoman.<br>
<br>
32:20: Joe tells of a convoy of army trucks outside; a<br>
presidential address follows.<br>
<br>
34:10: Eva tells Alex he talked in his sleep last night. She<br>
wants him to tell her how he feels, he's gone so much.<br>
<br>
35:10: Joe describes the picaresque, cites classical examples,<br>
wonders where modern heroes travel.<br>
<br>
36:00: Alex tells of walking through the city, wondering where<br>
he's going. Voltgen responds, tells him he has to give up on love.<br>
<br>
38:40: Voltgen gives Alex a hooded gown, leads Alex into the<br>
temple, leads a service, accompanied by choral chanting, inducts Alex<br>
into Electricism.<br>
<br>
42:00: Olga (Marilyn Casky), Alex's other wife, talks about<br>
Alex spending time at Voltgen's temple, says he'll leave it as he's<br>
left all the other sects he's joined.<br>
<br>
43:00: A fellow leaves an ominous message on their phone.<br>
Olga's scared, Alex says it's nothing. They argue.<br>
<br>
45:00: Vorst tells of driving a few days ago, saw 2 children<br>
making earthcakes near their hut, recalls a song from his childhood,<br>
hums it for us.<br>
<br>
46:20: 'Sometimes I sign out a chopper...' Vorst looks at<br>
girls sunbathing on the roof.<br>
<br>
47:10: Eva hears the helicopter, asks Alex what it's doing;<br>
it's looking into their window.<br>
<br>
49:30: Vorst calls on citizens to report strangers to the<br>
authorities.<br>
<br>
50:10: Alex tells of physicians treating some woman.<br>
<br>
51:20: Vorst talks about burying oneself up to the neck to<br>
stay warm during the winter.<br>
<br>
Year: 1984<br>
<br>
Cast: Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur<br>
Miller, Brother Theodore, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Clark Gordon,<br>
Larry Block, Sharon Dennis-Wyeth, Richard Bauer, Tim Jerome, and Joe<br>
Frank<br>
<br>
Music: 'Brothers of darkness - sons of light' (Popul Vuh),<br>
'Flowered knife shadows' (Harold Budd), 'On land' (Brian Eno), 'Remote<br>
viewing' (Tangerine Dream), 'Six marimbas' (Steve Reich), 'Peace<br>
piece' (Bill Evans), 'Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ'<br>
(Steve Reich)<br>
<br>
russell bell<br>
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