the-man-from-earth-2007: movie monologues to shadow
14 monologues from the-man-from-earth-2007. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C15 lines
All right, all right, I'll play.
A lifespan once he playsthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007He agrees to answer, then calls ordinary death slow poisoning instead of a 190-year life. - C15 lines
The pancreas turns over cells every 24 hours, the stomach lining
Renewal that faltersthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007The organ countdown makes a miracle sound like one flaw avoided. - B27 lines
In what I call my first lifetime, I aged to about 35...
The first lifetimethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Each short line tightens the turn from awe to fear, so exile feels inevitable. - C16 lines
And I sailed as a Phoenician for a time.
Harder each time he leftthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Each step, from the sea to walled cities to a faked death, makes leaving tighter and the voice drier. - C15 lines
It would vanish in disbelief.
Disbelief kills the storythe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007He answers the fear of gossip by letting disbelief destroy the story on its own. - C17 lines
Let me just say something right now.
No way to disprove itthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Outrage and expertise are both waved aside, and the story is left standing. - C113 lines
Well, we had the practical concept.
Death as coming apartthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007The list stays physical until the last beat removes the speaker from death. - C14 lines
Turbulence.
People as wheat ripplesthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Each line shrinks people into a smaller trace, from a name to wind in wheat. - C15 lines
Unconsciously, perhaps, by some biological or psychic mechanism that we can only guess at.
denial that accusesthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Each denial restates the charge, then fairness leaves no clean way out. - C15 lines
I'm only exploring what you have said.
invitation to the funeralthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Belief is set aside, and a polite funeral question becomes the verdict. - C14 lines
The mythical overlay is so enormous...
The hundred-word darethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007It calls the myth huge and bad, calls the truth simple, then dares the room to hear a faith in a hundred words. - C14 lines
Anyone mentally ill can imagine a fantastic background, even an entire life, and sincerely believe it.
From Napoleon to a diagnosisthe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007It stacks a known delusion, then a lost identity, until the tale sounds like a diagnosis. - C15 lines
The Old Testament sells fear and guilt.
Religion repriced as a salethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007Hope gets repriced as fear, the words are handed to smarter writers, and a fairy tale closes the case. - C19 lines
Began as a schoolhouse and ended as a temple.
From schoolhouse to medicinethe-man-from-earth-2007 · 2007A schoolhouse becomes a temple, the miracles are crossed off, and only a little medicine is left.