A three-second Burt headtilt toward camera. Hold steady gaze. Cosmo grin. Speaks: “You can tell by the shoes.” (soundtrack sliding in/out of sync -Mr. Fox poet)

 

Or speaks: “that’s just crazy enough to work.”

 

Emil: “A liberal religion is a mockery or a miracle.” (Cioran always with aphorisms – fiddles with radio)

 

And again: “That we can be wounded by the very people we despise discredits pride.”

 

Burt: “These are new times needing new words.” (The 1970’s? SURVEILLANCE NOW!) (When was this filmed – during Tammy Wynette or Sally Field or Dinah Shore even?)

 

[HOLLYWOOD SQUARES:
Peter Marshall: Burt Reynolds is quoted as saying, "Dinah (Shore)'s in top form. I've never known anyone to be so completely able to throw herself into a..." A what?
Paul Lynde: A headboard.]

 

Burt’s skin taut. Hurts now to close the eyes. Hurts to speak. Sleep and language - nothing but trouble.

 

Emil thinking: “if we knew the hour of our brain.”

 

Cigarettes are lit of course.

 

Tight shot - outside the car through the windshield.

 

Someone yells: “let’s roll” or “go go go”

 

Or someone yells: “after all, I have not wasted my time, I too have fidgeted, like anyone else, in this aberrant universe.”