START:
<ul>Black screen, three seconds.  Piano music starts: high tinkling, minor key, sparse.</ul>

CUT TO:
<ul>OLIVER, a medium-sized stuffed pig, bathed in a bright light, standing on a very dark carpet/sheet.  The camera faces OLIVER on, holds for three seconds, then slowly revolves, counterclockwise, around OLIVER until reaching the original position.  Hold for three seconds, then... </ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Black screen for a second, then...</ul>

CUT TO: 
	<ul>Title screen: "Oliver: The Erudite Pig," white Adobe Garamond letters on black, double underlined, synched with minor 7th chord.  Hold for four seconds, then...</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Black screen for a second, then...</ul>

CUT TO: 
	<ul>OLIVER, standing next to a copy of Infinite Jest (on camera's left) and a Chekhov play (on camera's right.)  Camera slowly moves in.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"Comprehension: The pillar of communiqué, speaking not only of interaction among entities -- between me and..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>TORTUGA, a small stuffed turtle, sitting on top of a copy of Hamlet. Camera slowly moves in.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"...cerebral peers, or even me and lessers -- but also..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>OLIVER, looking in a mirror.  Camera slowly moves in.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"me and myself.  I am not simply what is given me; I am what I comprehend."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Black screen for a second, then...</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"This is what I comprehend."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Eyes on up of a young woman, who is wearing a tasseled hat. She blinks, occasionally, but does not move much. A few jump cuts. Piano music starts: high tinkling, minor key, sparse.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
<ul>"The woman is warm: A marked disparity to animals dead and dying. rubber boots are worn, and her tasseled hat can slay the chill."</ul>


CUT TO:
	<ul>Stained-glass window.  Camera looks at numerous different panels.  A few jump cuts, with short black interludes.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"She walks into church. It's cold. She doesn't mill about the unseemly..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Oliver, sitting on a pew.  Jump cut to three or four different angles, with short black interludes.</ul>


OLIVER V.O.:
<ul>"...sanctuary. Ants are on the third pew. She wipes them quickly off, then sits, with her clasp-ed hands around a birch..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>A bit of bark that looks like a cross, resting in a person's open hand.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"...occurrence: a tiny flake of bark, a cross with jesus's outline, maybe."</ul>

ON SCREEN:
	<ul>Hand closes.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
<ul>"She thought so."</ul>

ON SCREEN:
	<ul>Bright light goes slowly back and forth, illuminating and non- the hand.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"Her mind is itinerant, yet her plateau of feverish fervor lingers, glassy, flat mosaic of ..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Same hand, no moving light, but shot through Saran Wrap.</ul>

OLIVER V.O:
	<ul>"...her and God. A holy tryst."</ul>

FADE TO: 
	<ul>Black screen.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"And here is the lord, our savior, Jesus Christ, the son of the living god."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Close-up of forehead with a finger drawing a cross with ashes.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"Abiding her, the fragment begins to tremble, focusing activity up, then down, then left, then right."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Tree appearing, then fading, in front of a bright light.  (Blue screen.)</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"Indecorous sweat is drenching wood and light alike. To the mind, the eyes' kaleidoscope..."</ul>

ON SCREEN:
	<ul>Bible appearing, then fading, in front of a bright light.  (Blue screen.)</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"...has rendered her bible as a hoover, brown, to swallow away her sins. vroom.</ul>

FADE TO:
	<ul>White screen.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"And gone is anthony's dalliance with her."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Three seconds of randomish photographs of hands, numbers, church symbols.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"Sister Ann's detection of cheating on a math test years ago."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Three seconds of randomish photographs of an angry-looking man's face.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"And then Wallace, Wally, knives and guns..."</ul>

CUT TO:
	<ul>Blobs of color -- photoshopy, quick, bright.</ul>

OLIVER V.O.:
	<ul>"...forgotten occasions."</ul>



weeping laugh. and she 
began to emancipate hysteria.
a delicate apparition for feria.
a nickel and dime, two honoraria
to christ the almighty, with sincerity.
the woman is warm: a marked disparity
to animals dead and dying. rubber boots
are worn, and her tasseled hat can slay the chill.