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• is able to see light at wave- range length well into the ultraviolet

Session 4

• knows everything about the • rational

• able to function normally newly discovered star system

• intelligent

• his presence seemed to have a

• amnesiacal positive effect on some of the

• delusional

• alert

Session 5

• mathematics is not his strong • wants to return to K-PAX suit

Session 6

• telling about life on K-PAX

Gene Brewer

• doesn’t smoke and friends

• always feels a little tingle at the

• prot seemed arrogant to him beginning of a challenging case,

and remembered him his father

• thinks about human mind and reality

• wants to find our prots geo- graphical origin, his occupation,

Session 2

• tries to give his examine room • patients sit on comfortable as pleasant an atmosphere as chairs and don’t see the clock possible

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• thinks that prot suffers some • took in high school courses in sort of sexual terror or dysfunc- physics

• with 12 he found himself in a tion

• feels a great deal of pity for prot state of profound shock and

• thinks that prot hates his par- confusion after his fathers dead

• wants to “humanize” prot ents, his job, the government, society

• thinks that prot has a sever sex hang-up

Session 3

• is curious

Session 4

• hated his father • contemplates the book

• his father had chosen his career • disappointed to find that prot and precipitated a lifelong guilt had his limits too

• realizes that he got his book complex

• 30 years after his fathers death, he had nearly managed to ruin Genes sex life

Session 5

would induce prot to remove his

Session 6

• asks himself if prot could have • wanted to be a singer killed someone

• never wanted to be a psychia- trist

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His father

• he was an overworked small- • Gene hated his insensitivity and town doctor his arrogance

Session 2

Karen:

• his wife • since 12 they are sweethearts

• knows her since ever His father:

• died when Gene was 12

Session 3

Abigail:

• his oldest daughter • doesn’t care how she looks

• very pretty • Steve’s wife Fred:

• his son • has an ear for music

• sensitive • quiet

• read a lot when he was a child • aeronautic Jennifer:

• his daughter • beautiful

• slim • third-year medical student Will (Chip):

• his son • popular

• youngest • hardly ever home

• brightest • doesn’t know what to do with his

• star athlete at school life

• active Steve:

• Abby’s husband • Has a reddish beard

• Professor of astronomy

Session 4

Karen:

• his wife • psychiatric nurse

Session 5

Chips:

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• favorite expressions: “ciao”, • summer job as a lifeguard at

“truly”, “you know?” one of the public beaches

Session 6

His mother:

• was a courageous woman • her last word: be a good doctor,

son

Session 1

• a planet • bigger than Earth, about the

• about 7 thousand light-years size of Neptune

• beautiful world with its colors from earth

• in “constellation Lyra” and variety

• two suns (K-MON = red; K-RIL

• k-paxians travel on tachyons

• tachyons travel faster than the = blue)

• most of time there’s twilight light and backward in time, time

• no one works there passes for the traveler and he

• they get TV and Radio from becomes older than ha was

when he left

earth

• only one race

Session 2

• circled by 7 moons • only a little water

• the reproducing process is quite • life began on land, underground

• forefathers were something like unpleasant

• pain is more general than on worms

• no families! earth

• women don’t strive hard to

• children are not raised by their

reach orgasm

biological parents, but by every-

• overpopulation is no problem one

• life is quite different than on • no countries!

• no zoos! earth

• life is much older

• no marriage

• life began 9 billion of earth years

• entire population = one big fam-

ago

ily

• k-paxians exist since 5 billions

• everybody is sibling

of years

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• no government! • no cities, only villages

• one does what needs to be • few children

• no difference between “working” done

• no money! and “playing”

• about 15 million of k-paxians • life is fun and interesting

• variety of creatures • adults and children are the

• no domestication of beings same

• k-paxians are vegetarians

• no capital

Session 3

• not mentioned

Session 4

• never completely dark, fewer stars visible in sky

Session 5

• no days • warm, no rain

• k-paxians sleep less • no one owns anything

• no regular time for sleeping • sleeping outdoor

• sleeping when need arises • men and women are free to

• doesn’t rotate unidirectionally share everything without fear or

• reaches the end of its cycle the need for guile

• wearing little or no clothing every 21 of Earth year

• libraries, computer simulations

• there exist calendars and (like being there) clocks, but they are rarely used

• planetary travel is something

• food: soaked grains (21 differ- new ent), fruits, vegetables, NO meat

• weather is very dependable, al- most every day the same

Session 6

• once a cycle cold weather • no need for a doctor

• nobody plants the grains, they • no pollution of air

• no tobacco plant themselves

• there are no humans

• herbs help against everything

• no laws

• small clinics

• no accidents

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• no religious, sexual or financial • no religions

• the idea of God was kicked a problems

• orderly few hundred cycles ago

• who makes a mistake this one is • discussions about information pointed out to him and ideas

• everybody knows what’s right • beings don’t kill other beings

• crime is less popular than sex and wrong

• behavior codes became obvious over time

Patients

Session 1

Russell:

• believed to be Christ • lives in his own world in general:

• they are capable of feats that others cannot begin to duplicate

Session 2

Ernie:

• almost always keeps to himself, • his father dug a bomb shelter in or talks quietly with Russell the back yard and practiced us-

• afraid of death, unable to think ing it

• with 11 he was unable to speak about anything else

• when he was 9 he watched his or to stop shaking

• in clinic since almost 20 years mother choke to death on a piece of meat Russell:

• unofficial chaplain Howie:

• usually too busy to talk to any- • endless quest for perfection

• circles and bags under his eyes one

• suffers the “white rabbit”- syn-

• battle with fatigue

• gets ill quickly drome

• 43 years old, look like 60

• reads dictionaries and encyclo-

• had musical abilities pedias

• father pushed him too much to

• takes notes and does lists play

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Session 3

• not mentioned

Session 4

Ward one:

• patients who suffer acute ne u- • patients are free to mingle roses or mild paranoia

• those who have responded to the rapy and are nearly ready to be discharged Ward two:

• delusionals (for example: Rus- • others unable to function in so- sell and prot) ciety

• manic and deep depressives • patients are free to mingle

• obdurate misanthropes Ward three:

• divided in 3A and 3B • 3B: autistic/catatonic section

• 3A: seriously psychotics Ward four:

• psychopaths who might cause harm to the staff or patients Whacky:

• son of a prominent • pleasant guy

• his ex-wife is well known • mid-forties

• normal childhood • handsome

• remained virginal for two ago- • closely cropped brown hair

• strong cleft chin nizing years – he was saving

• sad blue eyes himself for the woman he loved

• on wedding she run off with an

• wanted to meet prot

• wanted to be taken to K-PAX old boyfriend

• began to masturbate right there in the church “Catherine Deneuve”:

• around 60 • unattractive

• slow-growi ng brain tumor • artist!

• almost totally unable to speak, • while she worked she even read or write seemed to become beautiful

• barely able to feed herself Ernie:

• takes his temperature less fre- quently Howie:

• seemed a bit less frenetic in general:

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• some of the others started to surroundings take a greater interest in their Bess:

• 27 years old • difficult to get her to eat, thinks

• has been homeless and emaci- she doesn’t deserve it

• sad person ated

• never smiles • listening attentively to prot

• was treated like a slave Mrs. Archer:

• 70 years • was running down Fifth Avenue

• called “the Duchess” naked when her husband left

• trained since birth for a life of her for a younger woman

• became a lamb in presence of luxury

• always complaining prot Russell:

• decided that prot was scouting the Earth for the devil

Session 5

in general:

• inmates love to talk about one another Howie:

• had become an entirely different • prot had assigned him the task person to find the bluebird of happiness

• cheerful • there will be 2 more tasks

• even relaxed

• cleaned glasses

Session 6

Chuck:

• 63 years • brought in because he started to

• has been doorman tell everybody who entered the

• bald Maria:

• has been an MPI for 3 years • her mother knew about it, and

• Russell was the only male who when her brothers got older they started to rape her too could get near her

• pretty

• suffered from multiple persona l-

• long black shiny hair ity disorder

• had been raped by her father (it • Carlotta (one of her personal i- started when she was 3) ties) tried to kill Maria once

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