A second man has a typewriter set into his chest so that when he looks
down at his feet the keys are visible. He has to type what he says in
order to say it.

A third man is simply a matte black refrigerator box.

A fourth man, periodically animated by an overhead light, kneels behind
a large pile of dimes and nickels. When the light goes on he tries to
sweep the coins toward himself, protecting them from the other men, but
the coins slide out from the pile and he has to sweep them up again.

Thirty men sit around a sumptuous dining room table. They're all very
hungry but none will start first.

Fifty naked men fight in a huge pile over who gets to stick a fork into
an electrical outlet.

Five blind men make love to some object that, by a coincidence, is shaped
like five women.

A man holds his breath too long, trying to break a record, and dies.

A man permanently scars his face in order to elicit sympathy from other
men.

Another man can neither bear to be looked at nor deal with the appearance
of paranoia. He builds an ultra-light helmet of one-way glass inside
which a video camera is trained on his face. This camera feeds the image
of his face onto a screen on the outside of the helmet.

A boy gets angry when he learns that moonlight is actually reflected
sunlight.

Three inseparable men: one only asks questions; the second only answers
these questions; the third wonders to himself why he is there.

Another man wastes his life failing to invent a machine that would allow
him to make love to the wind.

Still another man, born with wings, undergoes a dangerous operation
installing prosthetic arms. He saves a boy's life in such a way that
necessitates arms. The rest of his life is spent placing extra prosthetic
arms everywhere he feels arms would be essential to the saving of a life.

Two surgeons operate on each other simultaneously.

A surgeon, after having operated on every part of the human body exactly
once, retires.

A surgeon replaces all the parts of his body for which there exist
prosthetic equivalents. He invents several new unnecessary prosthetics.

A surgeon keeps parts of his patients as trophies. After a long and
illustrious career, he retires. While organizing his collection in his
spare time he realizes that he has at least one of every part of the
human body. He builds a body piecemeal from the collection and rewrites
his will to state that this body be buried in his coffin. His own body
is to be donated to science.

A man has, instead of a right hand and a left hand, a knife and a fork.
He dreams of eating soup.

A second man spends most of his time eating or reminiscing about
eating. He develops a passionate argument against the conventional
sequence of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which he feels does not leave
enough time between meals to memorize the experiences.

A third man streamlines the production of memory chips at a computer
manufacturing plant, winning an industry-wide honor for which he is given
a solid gold computer chip as a trophy. The man's infant son chokes
to death on this chip. After the man's grief wears off he wonders how
to memorialize his son.

A sad man cries almost incessantly. Because his sadness renders him
unable to hold a job he bottles his tears in tiny vials and sells them
as mail-order remedies.

Two hundred men who share a favorite restaurant never realize it.

A man flips a coin to escape boredom, getting heads as a result. He
flips the coin several more times, each time getting heads. He decides
to continue flipping the coin until tails results. It never does.

A man demands that his wife wear her wedding gown for the duration of
their mariage. She has to have many replicas made and eventually gets
used to wearing only the dress. After many years she falls out of love
and divorces the man but continues to wear the dress.

A man develops a fear of falling asleep. His anxiety exhausts him to
the point of sleep. When he awakens the fear returns. The system
ends up working in a way similar to everyone else.

A blind man, born blind, gouges out his lifeless eyes in order to get
some measure of satisfaction.

Another blind man, who lost his sight in an accident in his youth,
gradually fogets what it was like to see.

Another born-blind man dreams that he can see, though he has no idea
this is what he is dreaming.

Two born-blind men stand on a streetcorner discussing their feelings of
isolation in a world of sighted people. Several sighted people stand
close-by so they can eavesdrop.

In an isolated race of blind men, one man loses his blindness as a result
of an accident. Ostracized, he begins to think he's invisible.
Eventually he is able to pay no attention to his visual field, to
disregard seeing altogether. He forgets how to see and is allowed
to rejoin the blind society.

Two friends, a blind man and an invisible man, never know this.

A man takes pleasure in the misfortune of others. But he doesn't
go out of his way to do it.

A group of bored men move through each other like ghosts.

Five to twenty bored men practice sitting in a confined space without
looking at each other.

Five hundred men have the same name.

A man's face dies decades before the rest of him does.

A businessman sells his face to another businessman. The now-faceless
businessman, though rich, loses all of his business contacts. They
can't bear his facelessness. Because he has no contacts he can't raise
enough money to buy his face back.

A boy confuses the meanings of the words "face" and "name." His
father is the faceless businessman.

Twenty businessmen frantically bid on another businessman's name. The
name is unpronouncably long, so long it would take more than twenty
lifetimes to say aloud. This length is the basis of its value.

An invisible man only takes jobs for which an elaborate uniform must
be worn: policeman, football player, theme park mascot. But he hates
what uniformed men have to do, and he quits these jobs always after a
short period of time.

A businessman is so busy he forgets his name.

A businessman goes to prison only for businessmen. None of the inmates
know they're in prison.

A prisoner grows so old and feeble-minded that he forgets first what crime
he's committed, second what crime is, and third that he is even in
prison at all.

An invisible man is imprisoned. He holds still for a long enough period
of time that the staff of the prison turns completely over. The new
staff doesn't know he's there and assigns another prisoner to his cell.
That night the invisible man touches the new inmate on the forehead,
turning him invisible.

A man says a word so many times he forgets its meaning. But he continues
using the word.

A man finds a certain word offensive without finding the meaning of the
word offensive. Still he cannot use a synonym because it reminds him
of the offending word.

A man gradually feels that all words mean the same thing.

A famous man confuses the meanings of two homophonic words in a speech
seen by the majority of a population. Nationally, the usages of the words
exchange to correspond with the man's mistake.

A man lists his vocabulary: all of the words of which he knows the
meaning. Then he lists the words he does not know. He spends his life
learning the definitions of these unknown words. By the time he finishes
the second list realizes he's forgotten all the words on the first list.

A man has a "false experience."

A man dies and becomes a ghost. Then the ghost dies and becomes a man.

A filmmaker secretly never puts film in the camera.

A filmmaker screen tests actor after actor for a role. Eventually he
releases all these screen tests as the film.

A filmmaker synchronizes and adapts his equipment so that one long strand
of film, as it is being shot, leaves the camera in a lightproof chute,
is routed through a lenear developer, and feeds straight into a
projector. The camera is focused upon the projector.

Two filmmakers unknowingly make the same film.

Fifty filmmakers spend so much time preventing the others from making a
better film that none of them make any films at all.

A filmmaker builds a harness to hold a running camera trained upon his
own face at just over an arm's length. He develops a double fear of
dying: first, that he will die on camera; second, that he will not get to
view this footage.

A filmmaker develops a habit of falling in love with his lead actresses.
When he was a younger man he had a habit of falling in love with
waitresses who served him in a restaurant.

A filmmaker declares as his mission the photography of the inner self.
He gradually moves from feature films to documentaries to still, silent
portraits, without satisfaction. Frustrated, he falls gravely ill. His
penultimate thought is that his film career, when viewed chronologically,
can be read as a photograph of his own inner self.

A time-lapse filmmaker fantasizes about keeping a camera trained on a
man his entire life--from his emergence from his mother's womb to his
interrment. The filmmaker estimates that an 80-year life could be
projected in about 8 hours.

A filmmaker goes crazy trying to film his own brain at work.

A film editor collects bits of film from the cutting room trash bins
and strings it together indeterminately. He never titles any of this
work, just records its duration.

A filmmaker decides that linearity, by definition, is narrative.

A photographer, frustrated by his lack of technical and compositional
expertise, becomes a filmmaker, shooting silent footage of his
photographic subjects. He then goes through the movie frame by frame
to select individual shots for enlarging and printing.

A filmmaker purchases the surveillance footage from local retail
establishments, singles out several customers who repeatedly shot at
this set of stores, edits the other customers out, and prints and wraps
the film.

A photographer, frustrated with his own sight's inferiority to his
photographs, surgically alters his head and eyes to contain a stereoscopic
polaroid motion picture camera.