Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collects race horses, names them after movie paraphernalia (CinemaScope, Projector I, Vista Vision II). At his Singapore mansion, he keeps rare orchids and tropical fish, plus four man-killing Alsatian hounds to discourage thieves. Lacking some of his brother's more exotic tastes, Run Run likes to mix business with pleasure, recently put up a twelve-story building in downtown Kowloon, with a nightclub on the first floor, offices on the third, living quarters for starlets on the eighth, and a luxury apartment for himself on the ninth...
...gifted mimics imagine that what they can imitate they have understood, but Sellers goes farther than that. His shop steward is the little man with the big dream, and he sees that if there is humor, there is also "enormous sadness" in the grubby little doctrine monger's vision of a workers' paradise somewhere beyond the Vistula: "All them cornfields and ballet in the evening...
...upon the reefs and bask in the midday sun." Ellida sports it for a time with the sailor, but at play's end she chooses a terrestrial admirer. The point seems to be that both sea and sailor represent Ellida 's escape from reality; when her vision clears, she is freed of her aqueous urges...
...rather tamely, with the words: "When it pleased God ... to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen." But Acts gives three versions, varying in detail but all including the sudden bright light and the collapse on the road to Damascus, the voice and vision of Jesus saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Blinded, he is led into the city, where a Christian named Ananias, advised by a vision, lays his hands on Paul, "And ... he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized...
There is also a widespread theory that Paul was an epileptic, and that the "vision" on the road to Damascus was simply an attack of the disease. The symptoms are typical-the light, the falling, the temporary blindness. Supporters of this hypothesis point to Paul's mysterious reference (II Corinthians 12:7-9) to his suffering from a "thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan," and this significantly follows a passage in which he tells of a man (usually taken to be himself) who "was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful...