After Many A Summer Dies The Swan
The original edition
The Director's cut part one
The Director's cut part two
After Many A Summer Dies The Swan
In England, under the banner of the Union Jack, a double decker bus passes a statue of the English Lion in downtown London.
Narrator: Jeremy Propter, an English teacher gets a letter. Mr. Jeremy Propter Your expertise is needed at the estate of millionaire Jo Stoyte. Some 17th Century papers have been found. Specifically, the Hauberk papers. The papers are the journals of the previous owner of this estate which have since been moved to an estate in Europe. I was lucky enough to purchase these papers at an auction after the estate went bankrupt.
Music score: England to the United States.
At the estate, he meets a doctor Mr. Obispo.
Obispo, like Jeremy, is a hired hand. He is hired to research scientific methods of life extension, perhaps even extending life to immortality.
Obidos, I mean Obispo is presumably in the midst of a vivisection of a field mouse that he found on the estate.
Jeremy Stoyte: Hello. Doctor. Do you know where I might find Mr. Stoyte? I have just arrived from London.
Dr. Obispo: He should be here any moment. Ah, speaking of which....
Jo Stoyte walks into the room with his mistress Virginia.
Jo Stoyte: Doctor how is it going with that research? Hey, you must be Propter. How was your trip from London? I am willing to pay you more than you were paid while you were a teacher at the University you were teaching at in London.
Virginia: I need my allowance. I have to go shopping again this afternoon.
Jo Stoyte: What?! I thought you were shopping this morning.
Virginia, reflectively: I was.
Pause.
Jo Stoyte: And where were you this morning?
Dr. Obispo reflectively: I was at the hospital, doing some research.
Pause:
Jo Stoyte; a knowing look?: I thought as much. What did the results of your research find?
Dr. Obispo: My colleagues have been talking about a revolutionary new method which will not be available to the public for another twenty five years. I will tell you about this when I learn more about it.
3 weeks later.
July 1756: "I have several large carp in my pond. I have a favourite one which I have placed a ring through. I would like to see how long they live."
August 1785: The carp which I thought had long died still has that ring and is still alive in the pond. When I placed that ring through its tail, I was ten years old. I am now 39 years old. I decide to try some of this food which I have been feeding the carp all along, which is pureed fish intestines which I get at the fish market. I use a mortar and pestle to triturate the fish guts which I feed the carp.
December 1810: Under the wintry glare of the December sky, my wife and I leave the house for the last time and head over to a cave located on the estate.
Narrator: When the millionaire is told of the cave on the estate that holds the key to what he is looking for, he orders a search of the caves immediately. The caves are located at the edge of the estate and half of it is submerged and the team has to go there in a rowboat. In the cave, they walk through until they see light from a television strobing through a distant doorway. In a room is a man wearing cotton flannel pants and a white shirt. The woman is wearing a grey dress. They were both barefoot. These people had a strange look about them, because these people were about 300 years old!
Later, at the edge of the swimming pool.
Dr. Obispo: My colleagues have arrived at the new method of life extension. It is called cryogenics. A person is frozen with liquid nitrogen.
Jo Stoyte: Maybe I should not. After what I saw back in the caves. It ought to have taught me a lesson. Nah! .....OK! Sure, I'll do it. Even though this may wind up costing me a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Nothing can go wrong.
Stonemasons, heard in the distance, working on the statues around the swimming pool: Tap it a few times with the chisel.
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2070 AD
A Cryogenics lab. A body is taken out of a deep freeze unit.
Scientist 1: Tap it a few times with the chisel, that will help break off the ice.
Scientist 2, to himself: Careful, you don't want anything to go wrong... whoops.
The head falls on the floor.
Note: Remember how the movie Hannibal had a surprise ending that the book did not have? This is my "Hannibal ending" to this movie.
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A Discussion About After Many A Summer Dies The Swan
"Next week, most of you will be going on to Vietnam. Some of you will not be coming back. But remember this. You may die, but the marine corps lives forever and that means, you live forever!" Full Metal Jacket
Aldous Huxley wrote this story about William Randolph Hearst the famous newspaper tycoon, published in 1939. This book inspired Orson Welles to make Citizen Kane which was released in 1941.
However, this book could be about any rich person.
Jeremy Propter, an English teacher is hired to interpret some 17th Century books found in an old basement called The Hauberk Papers. Travelling from England to the United States, to the New England foothills area where there is a Jeffersonian estate.
At the estate, he meets a doctor Mr. Obispo. Now this is a remarkable coincidence: I wrote a book review about AMASDTS on Amazon dot com, the only one place I wrote book reviews in 2001. A Dean Noble book review. I used my name on that book review rather than an alias, like YouTube in which my alias is drdrtfehytf and canadagoals. Amazon dot com uses the word obidos in its URL which I knew before reading that, Obidos is a city in Portugal pronounced in Portuguese Oobidooschz. The Portuguese have that constant sibilant slur that sounds like 'sh'. Obispo and Obidos, are anagrams of one another except for the upside down p which is d, and vice versa.
Obispo, like Jeremy, is a hired hand. He is hired to research scientific methods of life extension, perhaps even extending life to immortality.
Obidos, I mean Obispo is presumably in the midst of a vivisection of a field mouse that he found on the estate. He has been having an affair with the mistress of the millionaire named Virginia.
Stoyte constantly inquires about the state of the research for life preservation. Obispo says that he is working on it day and night.
Jeremy Propter says that he is reading the book and has discovered an interesting entry:
July 1756: "I have several large carp in my pond. I have a favourite one which I have placed a ring through. I would like to see how long they live."
August 1785: The carp which I thought had long died still has that ring and is still alive in the pond. When I placed that ring through its tail, I was ten years old. I am now 39 years old. I decide to try some of this food which I have been feeding the carp all along, which is pureed fish intestines which I get at the fish market. I use a mortar and pestle to triturate the fish guts which I feed the carp.
December 1810: Under the wintry glare of the December sky, my wife and I leave the house for the last time and head over to a cave located on the estate.
When the millionaire is told of the cave on the estate that holds the key to what he is looking for, he orders a search of the caves immediately.
The cave are located at the edge of the estate and half of it is submerged and the team has to go there in a rowboat.
In the cave, they walk through until they see light from a television strobing through a distant doorway. In a room is a man wearing cotton flannel pants and a white shirt. The woman is wearing a grey dress. They were both barefoot. These people had a strange look about them, because these people were about 300 years old!
The man stood up and urinated. The woman threw back her head and laughed.
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