AUDINT - Delusions of the Living Dead

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  The American Pronunciation Guide Presents ''How to Pronounce Delusions of the Living Dead'' Delusions of the Living Dead, Phantom Chapter 1.1 It's 1949, and Auden, Slapion, Arnett and Morton are discussing how those with extreme psychological disorders might react to the tests carried out on their engineer, Eduard…

• 00:02:22

  His information about Isabelle Chimay is scant, consisting of her home address and the name of the Mille-Âge bar revient and the 11 arrondissements that she's known to frequent on weekends. That his trip is solely based upon a feigned serendipitous meeting with her here seems wildly optimistic…

• 00:05:15

  She states that her ability to speak English is due to long hours spent translating letters from the 1860s. Ruminating on phantom leg syndrome, the dispatches formed a small part of the Civil War correspondence between American poet Walt Whitman, whilst he dressed rooms at Union hospitals, and Silas Weir Mitchell…

• 00:08:23

  He was unsure whether she would like them or not, but more importantly, for 45 minutes or so, the gesture assuaged Slepian's guilt for what he was about to embark on. Isabella invites Slepian to sit in an uncomfortable Art Deco iron chair, and asks whether he has heard of the recently deceased French theatre director…

• 00:11:32

  Having mixed the cocktail, she quips that hopefully they won't have similar urges of self-destruction to those that caused the demise of the banker their drink is named after. Slepian wonders how she could have any inkling of what he is about to do. She couldn't, he answers himself. With a bell from the kitchen…

• 00:14:12

  After rifling through numerous books, Slepian turns his attention to the locked vitrines, and sure enough, there it is. Pride of place with a handwritten label by its side. Impatience getting the better of him, he pulls an Iranian kilim onto the case. A lump in wooden radii, the is unplugged and brought in. He…

• 00:17:23

  One of Sinkov's favorite pastimes is solving arcane ciphers, codes, and cryptograms. Hence a package of imageries from 1887 landing in his pigeonhole. At home late on a Saturday night, and Sinkov, glass in one hand, bodge and envelope in the other, plunges into his seat for some relaxation. Spilling whiskey down…

• 00:20:13

  Abstract in part due to the languages it has been shuttled through, the principles of engagement are clear enough that Audent are now confident that they can program the delusion into the sentient. For now though, the instructions are catalogued and archived, and they will not be opened again until Nguyen Van Phong…