Host (Dante): What is your contribution?
Guest (Roth): A hat that can be used as a mask, a hatchet with a bob, and some facsimiles by Carl Jung, the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, JG Ballard, Hamish Fulton, Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, WG Sebald and Don DeLillo.
Host: Any cohesion? Guest: Mozart, Porgi Amor.
Contessa: Qualche ristoro,Al mio duolo, a'miei sospiri: 0 mi rendi il mio tesoro, 0 mi lascia almen morir.
Guest: Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos for Mozart's greatest operas: Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi fan tutte. In 1805, after Mozart's death Da Ponte went to the US and opened a diner.
Slavoj Zizek: In contrast to the deceiving verbal speech, in music, it is, to paraphrses Lacan, the truth itself which speaks. Mozart was the first post-classicist, truly modern composer.
Host: Mozart and the many identities.
Guest: The word persona is derived from the Greek word for mask.
Carl Jung: The persona is the psychic territory where who we really are confronts who we are perceived to be. True persona development can become serious and sacred work that echoes the role of the mask as an archetypal symbol of transformation/ initiation
The Hatchet: Two hunters, Sampson and his son Ainsley, are fishing in a swamp during a füll moon. Ainsley says he has to use the restroom, and Sampson rows their boat back to shore. While Ainsley is urinating, Sampson falls silent; Ainsley goes to see where he is and finds Sampson's mutilated body. He quickly grabs his harpoon, only to be murdered by an unknown monstrous being, which severs hirn in half after mutilating him.
The Stoned Guest: Don Giovanni's destruction and deliverance to hell are effected by the cemetery statue of the Commendatore, -me- who had accepted the libertine's invitation to supper.