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We hear Joe alternately discussing his own writing process and typing at a keyboard.  His story describes a romance between an American woman and a bullfighter.  The narrative alternates with acted scenes and sound effects.  Every scene degenerates into references to bull fighting.  The couple swims naked in the sea, encounter a whale.  Panel discussion: being terrified of text after reading Black Beauty, writing to purge anxiety, the history of writing.  Story: reckless passion in a race car.  Panel: reading and the downfall of civilization, the danger of self examination.  Joe: the universe as a succession of writers inventing worlds.  Story: a scene in a hotel room above a festival, the bull fighter's childhood, a fisherman living far from water and fishing for scrap ("You cannot eat a coat"), reading doesn't compare to bullfighting, scar stories.  Story: scene in a church, stained glass featuring the resurrection of a wealthy donor, animals communicate with god. Joe: hammering a nail into your heart with your own brocaded slipper.  Panel: man wasn't meant to read, college course reading lists.  Joe: Melville's physical struggle when writing.  Story: a scene in a cafe, she begs him to stop fighting bulls, a model bull fight using steak knives tied to a chair.  A man and woman fight - he wants to watch TV and she wants to read.  A television program: the fastest piano player interview.  Panel: the consciousness lowering group.  Joe: finding a dead whale on the beach, the mess in one's bathroom.  

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== Music ==

{{Solea (Miles Davis) }}

{{Section I (Steve Reich)}}

== Commentary ==