…salt wants to run off with the circus. And, you know, Ray Bradbury in his book the Circus of Doctor Lau used these motifs, Fellini in his films over and over again. The circus is a motif for the unconscious. So over time, and I've had people say, you…

…entirely about that movie and replaying it in my head and trying to understand it. The archetype of the circus. This is why Fellini uses this. God, there are scenes in Giulietta d'Espiri where she opens the triangular door and the burning bed is there. I…

…kind of literary construction, this is actually. Remember I mentioned last night about being in the baths and how it was like a Fellini movie crossed with a Disney cartoon? Well, I was thinking about that in bed last night, and I said, well, there was a…

…world, a world completely different from the humdrum Kansas that you're living in somewhere. If any of you are film fans, Federico Fellini had a wonderful affection for the circus and clearly saw it in this way. Not only the circus of Amarchord, but the…

…saw it in this way. Not only the circus of Amarchord, but the circus of Roma, Satyricon, Casanova, I mean, over and over again, Fellini, he was doing this, he was an impresario, he was a master of magic and effect. It's this idea that there's a world…