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''"The bus leaves in the evening from the Buena Vista station, crosses 27 bridges to the valley of the crumbs."''

'''The Death Of Trotsky''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1979]].

== Synopsis ==
Fictionalized, third-person account of Trotsky's assassin, cut with assorted other events.  Joe reads a poem. First person scenes from a hospital, a cemetery.  Stalin is Trotsky in disguise.  Prayers full of Nada.  Being afraid of nothing.  The problems of analysts.  Toes engaged in a discussion of socialism, a woman lays an egg, a bird becomes a war plane.  Kierkegaard regrets the decision not to marry, is taunted by children shouting "Either, Or," make a leap of faith before an audience.  Trotsky is serenaded by a terrible orchestra.  A holy man is buried for forty days. Falling asleep while killing Trotsky.  A pregnant old man in a golf course.  The power of confession.  Nihilism; Nietzsche is accused of killing god; Freud treats a kleptomaniac; the future determines the past.  Trotsky's killer leads a revolutionary cadre into the woods, becomes lost, discovers that their side has already won and become corrupt, and captures dissidents. 



== Interesting Facts ==
The nada prayer appears in Ernest Hemingway's short story ''A Clean Well Lighted Place''

== Music == 
{{Solea (Miles Davis) }}
* "Section I" - Steve Reich (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Music-18-Musicians-Steve-Reich/dp/B000026258 Music for 18 Musicians]", 1978)

== Commentary ==
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== External Links ==


{{WBAI And NPR Playhouse}}
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