Mit seinen Nachtmutzen unci Schlafrockfetzen Stopft er die Liicken des Weltenbaus.

- Heine [151]

Karen Green sits on a park bench in Central Park. She wears a russet sweater and a black cashmere scarf. All around her we see people milling about, enjoying one of those sparkling February days New York City sometimes deigns to deliver. Patches of snow lie on the ground, children shriek, carriages clatter past taxi cabs and traffic cops. A war is going on in the Persian Gulf but those affairs hardly seem to matter here. As Karen explains, more than a little time has passed:

It's been four months since we escaped from our house. It's also four months since I've seen Navy. As far as I know, he's still in Charlottesville with Billy— conducting experiments.

[She coughs lightly]

We used to talk on the phone but now even that's stopped. This whole experience has changed him. Losing Tom, I think changed him the most.

I've called, written, done everything short of going down there, which is something I refuse to do. I'm up here taking care of our children and looking after his film. He did some work on it but then he just stopped and shipped me all of it, the negatives, the tapes, the whole mess. Still, he won't leave Virginia. And to think, two months ago he told me he was only going to need a few more days.

My mother keeps telling me to get rid of him and sell the house. I'm thinking about it but in the meantime I've been working on the film. There was so much of it I decided to cut it down to thirteen minutes ^ to find out what people thought of it.

And I showed it to everyone I could think of too—professors, scientists, my therapist, village poets, even some of the famous people Navy knew.

[Coughs again]

Anne Rice, Stephen King, David Copperfield, and Stanley Kubrick actually responded to unsolicited copies of the video I sent them.

Without further ado then, here is what everyone had to say about that house. ³²⁵

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A Partial Transcript Of

What Some Have Thought

by Karen Green^

though, five minutes were excised, Stanley unconvincingly chalks up to Karen Green's own ineptitude: "She simply must have misstated the length of the tape."

³²⁵ Interestingly enough neither___________ nor__________ , both of whom actually saw the

hallway, ever provided any comments. Perhaps XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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³²⁶ Crossed out with what looked suspiciously like black crayon and tar. ³²⁷ 0riginally The Navidson Record contained both of Karen's pieces: What Some Have Thought and A Brief History Of Who I Love. However when Miramax put the film in wide release. What Some Have Thought was absent. At a Cannes press junket. Bob Weinstein argued that the section was too self- referential and too far from "the spine of the story" to justify its inclusion. "Audiences just want to get back to the house" he explained. "The delay that piece caused was unbearable. But don't worry, you'll have it in the DVD release." ³²⁸

³²⁸ T o date, I haven't heard back from any of the people quoted in this "transcript" with the exception of Hofstadter who made it very clear he'd never heard of Will Navidson, Karen Green or the house and Paglia who scribbled on a postcard: "Get lost, jerk."