Chronic Reverie
Performed Nov. 5, 6, 1981
Boston Film and Video Foundation

“Father abandoned child, husband wife, one brother another…”  -  Agnola deYura

Once you entered the dungeon you didn’t leave.  Near the hole where they dropped you in was a hook where food could be hung just out o f the prioner’s reach.  -  Scotland 1975

“She had a grenade so I threw her down and crushed her face with my foot.  We cut off her ears.”
An army doctor 1969

When I got back I told her he was dead.
“You mean he expired,” she said.
“Yes, he’s dead,” I said
“No, he expired.  Here we say expired.”
“That’s right, he failed to renew his subscription, he disregarded his renewal notice and he expired.”
“Here we say expired,” she said.  “We do not say the other word here.”
Conversation with a nurse 1969

Photographs by Ben Britton

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