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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
Session 2
• 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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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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B.Imboden (Tb)
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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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
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- • 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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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
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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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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B.Imboden (Tb)
• 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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