Brewer, Gene - K-Pax

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• athletic • believes himself from another

• little below average in height world called K-PAX0

• 337 years old • stocky

• wanted to come to earth by cu- • dark

• swarthy riosity

• first visit of earth in 1963 • thick and coalblack hair

• firs k-paxian to visit earth • dark glasses calm demeanor

• has been on 65 planets • agile and coordinated step

• visited Africa, Europe, Asia, • seemed relaxed

• soft voice

• no accent

• his parents don’t work • very healthy

• his parents are more than 600 • capitalizes the names of planyears old ets, stars, etc., but not those of persons, institutions, even countries

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• began to take notes during ses- • hadthousands of parents

• spent a happy childhood sion

• born the same like one does on • no biological children

• met his mother once, but never earth

• anatomy much like the humans

his father

• physiology is similar too • no person but a being

• didn’t have a home to go when

he was child

Session 3

• at least attended college and • IQ: 154

• look at page 40 possibly even a graduate or professional school

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• is able to see light at waverange

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

• delusional

• alert

Session 5

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

suit

Session 6

• telling about life on K-PAX

• initial interview: simple chat

• doesn’t smoke

• always feels a little tingle at the • prot seemed arrogant to him

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

• thinks that prot hates his par- • wantsto “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

• puts 15watt-“nightlight” bulbs,

hoping the dimmer radiance 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- • Genehated 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,

• 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

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• 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- • overpopulationis 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 famago 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

• reaches the end of its cycle

• 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

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• 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

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

• afraid of death, unable to think

• 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- • endlessquest for perfection

• circles and bags under his eyes one

• suffers the “white rabbit”- syn- • battlewith fatigue

• gets ill quickly drome

• 43 years old, look like 60 • reads dictionaries and encyclo-

• hadmusical abilities

pedias

• father pushed him too much to • takes notes and does lists

play

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• not mentioned

Session 4

Ward one:

• patients who suffer acute ne u- • patientsare 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- • othersunable 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- • closelycropped 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 emacishe 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”

• trained since birth for a life of

• 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

• bald

Maria:

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

• Russell was the only male who

could get near her

• pretty • suffered from multiple persona l- • longblack 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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