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Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

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The Doctor Gives a Speech About Suicide

"I want to read the whole thing, or if you have it, i have it up. The doctor knows that she's a selective mute," he writes. "Every infection and every gesture is a lie, every smile a grimace." 'Such things matter only in the theatre, and hardly there either,' says an actor who refuses to speak for her own safety.

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