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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