In A Question of Solitude there are verbatim re-enactments. A nurse (Mortimer?) really did leave a message on my apartment phone, which I promptly returned. She was asking if I was related to, and could therefore consent to treatment for, Peter Dizozza, my long lost uncle, who was hospitalized in Houston for stress fractures from a sidewalk fall.
My father's youngest brother, a red head who had been named after their own father, my grandfather, Peter Dizozza, was living at the Coach Motel, an SRO near Hobby airport, and he wanted to go home. Nurse Mortimer did not advise that, however. She said he was well funded and asked if I would approve extended rehabilitation in a nursing home (where he was to die... he refused to eat so they inserted a stomach tube.)
While I was there visiting him some months later, yes, as in the Q of S script, he asked for "a hamburger, make that two." By the time of my visit to the nursing home I was writing A Question of Solitude, so when we left him we went to The Gulf Greyhound Park to watch the dog races. I was accompanied, thank you, Kim, by Kim who did accompany me nto the nursing home. She stayed for many seconds prior to my uncle turning to her and saying several times, actually, "I want to eat your face." I suppose you could say he sounded crazy when he said that. What happened to his records? Why was he well-funded? Why had he been on disability all these years? I think I know why, but no the records were lost.. Only the funding was there.
The departure from Gulf Greyhound Park that ends A Question of Solitude's Act 1, includes the favorite dialogue from the Peter Sellars Casino Royale ("What are your movements for the rest of the evening Mr. Bond?" "I thought we'd get a late dinner, go back to the hotel and turn in for the night.".. something like that...). It also depicts my understanding, honestly, of what I determined was the murder of my grandmother at the age of 100 years and 97 days...
Seriously, the undertaker let me examine her body. There were no bruises, not on the hands or anywhere, except of course the single blow to the left aorta that opened up the cable of blood to the brain, which, when cut, filled the skull and herniated the brain into the brain stem, not a bad way to go in 7 hours. In her lifetime she had no downtime other than that.
My grandmother within the first 30 minutes of this blow needed an emergency craniotomy... so she's found in her 68-37 Yellowstone Boulevard hall, my mother found her, in a pool of blood, only from that single bruise... if you don't act fast it kills anyone.
Just briefly, at 1PM Tuesday, June 20th, 2005 my grandmother lay on the floor of the first floor hallway leading from steps to the elevator. She always took the stairs from her second floor apartment. She and her husband had lived there since these president apartments were built. She had to slip back and cut the lower left back of her neck on the edge of a step, then move to the middle of the hallway... and there was no blood from the steps to the place where my mother found her.
Look my mother is dead, too, amazingly going through the same manner of passing because a stroke and an infusion of blood thinner created the same problem in the bruised area from a clot of the aorta leading to the brain. Yes, the doctors managed to squeeze in a craniotomy procedure at a rather late stage in her treatment, this over the course of 12 days, Monday, February 28th to the morning of Saturday, March 12th, 2011 when she passed away.)
I acknowledge that other examples of the slow coma/death from impact to the back of head are clearly accidents. A boy sliding into home base, a woman resting from a fall at a ski lodge.... there's a gradual loss of consciousness. They needed an emergency craniotomy.
So in A Question of Solitude at the Gulf Greyhound Park entrance, after they win big, Jimmie awaits Fremda, who went looking for her daughter. A valet brings them her Nissan Mazima. The Valet, one of Blofield's lacky's, clearly strikes James in the lower left back of the neck. He continues speaking until he falls.. this was rather amazingly performed by Zach Pethoud and Mike Allen Hill. Mike is definitive in the role of the Young James Bond.
Then a misfiring of Blofield's new heart tempers his exuberance, so he needs to return to his hospital for an emergency transplant..
Act Two opens with the two bond girls (Mortimer and Fremda) performing upon the younger James an emergency craniotomy, using one of those manual crank drills creating the perfect sound of surgery.
The young James Bond is saved, and he has the added benefit of a plug in the back of his head so he can release future pressure therein. Unfortunately the bond girl, Fremda, holds the key that can open that pressure plug....
So there are three James Bonds in a Question of Solitude, Senior Bond, Uncle James, and Jimmy, because there are three Peter Dizozzas, me, my uncle and my grandfather.
Anything else? There's a line in an old song, Trailing, "She's sunning at a dog race, where dogs are killed if they catch what makes them run,"
That's true because it's just a mechanical rabbit whipping around the race track. It's really nothing for the dogs to get excited about and, when they realize that, they let it go by without chasing it.
The artist, Faith Palmer-Persen, took me to a kennel where we met and helped care for (during one afternoon) some of the rescued ones..
So the last line of A Question of Solitude is "No one leaves here without taking home a retired greyhound."
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Jimmy: Return to Goldeneye!
Fremda: And guess who is waiting for us there?
J: Who?
F: Suzie?
J: Who's Suzie?
F: My daughter.
J: Who's been taking care of her?
F: The bachelor next door,
J: Noel Coward?
etc...
George Ferencz, who helped develop this project at La Mama, helped me discover that Ian Fleming wrote less about James Bond, who is, after all, the orithologist who wrote The Wild Birds of Jamaica, than on cataloging species of birds, fish and plants...
My father's youngest brother, a red head who had been named after their own father, my grandfather, Peter Dizozza, was living at the Coach Motel, an SRO near Hobby airport, and he wanted to go home. Nurse Mortimer did not advise that, however. She said he was well funded and asked if I would approve extended rehabilitation in a nursing home (where he was to die... he refused to eat so they inserted a stomach tube.)
While I was there visiting him some months later, yes, as in the Q of S script, he asked for "a hamburger, make that two." By the time of my visit to the nursing home I was writing A Question of Solitude, so when we left him we went to The Gulf Greyhound Park to watch the dog races. I was accompanied, thank you, Kim, by Kim who did accompany me nto the nursing home. She stayed for many seconds prior to my uncle turning to her and saying several times, actually, "I want to eat your face." I suppose you could say he sounded crazy when he said that. What happened to his records? Why was he well-funded? Why had he been on disability all these years? I think I know why, but no the records were lost.. Only the funding was there.
The departure from Gulf Greyhound Park that ends A Question of Solitude's Act 1, includes the favorite dialogue from the Peter Sellars Casino Royale ("What are your movements for the rest of the evening Mr. Bond?" "I thought we'd get a late dinner, go back to the hotel and turn in for the night.".. something like that...). It also depicts my understanding, honestly, of what I determined was the murder of my grandmother at the age of 100 years and 97 days...
Seriously, the undertaker let me examine her body. There were no bruises, not on the hands or anywhere, except of course the single blow to the left aorta that opened up the cable of blood to the brain, which, when cut, filled the skull and herniated the brain into the brain stem, not a bad way to go in 7 hours. In her lifetime she had no downtime other than that.
My grandmother within the first 30 minutes of this blow needed an emergency craniotomy... so she's found in her 68-37 Yellowstone Boulevard hall, my mother found her, in a pool of blood, only from that single bruise... if you don't act fast it kills anyone.
Just briefly, at 1PM Tuesday, June 20th, 2005 my grandmother lay on the floor of the first floor hallway leading from steps to the elevator. She always took the stairs from her second floor apartment. She and her husband had lived there since these president apartments were built. She had to slip back and cut the lower left back of her neck on the edge of a step, then move to the middle of the hallway... and there was no blood from the steps to the place where my mother found her.
Look my mother is dead, too, amazingly going through the same manner of passing because a stroke and an infusion of blood thinner created the same problem in the bruised area from a clot of the aorta leading to the brain. Yes, the doctors managed to squeeze in a craniotomy procedure at a rather late stage in her treatment, this over the course of 12 days, Monday, February 28th to the morning of Saturday, March 12th, 2011 when she passed away.)
I acknowledge that other examples of the slow coma/death from impact to the back of head are clearly accidents. A boy sliding into home base, a woman resting from a fall at a ski lodge.... there's a gradual loss of consciousness. They needed an emergency craniotomy.
So in A Question of Solitude at the Gulf Greyhound Park entrance, after they win big, Jimmie awaits Fremda, who went looking for her daughter. A valet brings them her Nissan Mazima. The Valet, one of Blofield's lacky's, clearly strikes James in the lower left back of the neck. He continues speaking until he falls.. this was rather amazingly performed by Zach Pethoud and Mike Allen Hill. Mike is definitive in the role of the Young James Bond.
Then a misfiring of Blofield's new heart tempers his exuberance, so he needs to return to his hospital for an emergency transplant..
Act Two opens with the two bond girls (Mortimer and Fremda) performing upon the younger James an emergency craniotomy, using one of those manual crank drills creating the perfect sound of surgery.
The young James Bond is saved, and he has the added benefit of a plug in the back of his head so he can release future pressure therein. Unfortunately the bond girl, Fremda, holds the key that can open that pressure plug....
So there are three James Bonds in a Question of Solitude, Senior Bond, Uncle James, and Jimmy, because there are three Peter Dizozzas, me, my uncle and my grandfather.
Anything else? There's a line in an old song, Trailing, "She's sunning at a dog race, where dogs are killed if they catch what makes them run,"
That's true because it's just a mechanical rabbit whipping around the race track. It's really nothing for the dogs to get excited about and, when they realize that, they let it go by without chasing it.
The artist, Faith Palmer-Persen, took me to a kennel where we met and helped care for (during one afternoon) some of the rescued ones..
So the last line of A Question of Solitude is "No one leaves here without taking home a retired greyhound."
-----------
Jimmy: Return to Goldeneye!
Fremda: And guess who is waiting for us there?
J: Who?
F: Suzie?
J: Who's Suzie?
F: My daughter.
J: Who's been taking care of her?
F: The bachelor next door,
J: Noel Coward?
etc...
George Ferencz, who helped develop this project at La Mama, helped me discover that Ian Fleming wrote less about James Bond, who is, after all, the orithologist who wrote The Wild Birds of Jamaica, than on cataloging species of birds, fish and plants...
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