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Speaking

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This episode explores speaking — not as communication or self-expression, but as the act that crosses the distance between inner life and the presence of another. Drawing on the peep show confession scene in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and an excerpt from Anne Carson's long poem "The Glass Essay," the episode moves between film, poetry, and the consulting room to ask what becomes possible when someone who has been watching in silence finally begins to speak.

Excerpts from Paris, Texas (1984, directed by Wim Wenders, written by Sam Shepard and L.M. Kit Carson, featuring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski). Poem excerpt from "The Glass Essay" by Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God (Knopf, 1995), read by Yerina Rock.

Script, music, and production by Jonathan David Moss.

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