The Salesman
Laurie Anderson

Now the book is called Stories from the Nerve Bible and what I mean by the Nerve Bible is the body. And parts of the body appear and disappear throughout the book, adding up to a kind of self-portrait although not a very naturalistic one. And I used the word Bible in the title of this book because the first really strange stories I remember hearing were Bible stories. And these stories were completely amazing: about parting oceans, and talking snakes. And people really seemed to believe these stories. And I'm talking about adults. Adults, who mainly just did the most mundane things imaginable: mowing their lawns and throwing potluck parties; they all believed in these wild stories. And they would sit around and discuss them in the most matter-of-fact way. So in a way I was introduced to a special local form of surrealism at an early age and so there was always a question in my mind about what's actually true and what is just another art form. Now I've always been intere! sted in trying to define what makes up the late twentieth century American for example and so, as an artist, I've always thought my main job was to be a spy, to use my eyes and ears, and find some of the answers. For example, I like to hang around the banks of phones in airports, one of my favorite listening posts and eavesdrop on conversations. Now I usually travel on the same schedule as salesmen and after lunch these guys call into the main office and I just stand there at the phones, listening in and taking notes for my portrait of the American salesmen.
€” Oh Frank? Listen, Frank. You know, I hate to say this about Brad. I mean we both know he's got a heck of a job. Ya, ya. Oh you're so right. But you know, we both know that Brad isn't pulling his weight. You know what I mean? And I'm not saying this just because we're both up for the same Safeway account.

So this book is really a collection of voices and stories as well as portraits of people that I've met along the way.

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A Curious Phenomenon Another Day in America Baby Doll Babydoll Bagpipe Solo Beautiful Pea Green Boat Beautiful Red Dress Beginning French Big Science Blue Lagoon Bodies In Motion Born, Never Asked Bright Red Broken Cartoon Song City Song Classified Closed Circuits Coolsvile Coolsville Dance of Electricity Dark Angel Dark Time In The Revolution Day The Devil Democratic Way Difficult Listening Hour Dream Before EngliSH Example #22 Excellent Birds Falling False Documents Finnish Farmers Four, Three, Two, One Frames For The Pictures Free Fall Freefall From The Air Gravity's Angel Hey Ah Hiawatha I Dreamed I Had To Take A Test In Our Sleep In Our Sleep [Instrumental][Mix] It Tango It Was Up In The Mountains John Lilly Kokoku Language is a Virus Langue D'amour Late Show Let X = X Let X=X Life on a String Lighting Out For The Territories Looking For You; Walking And Falling Love Among The Sailors Mach 20 Maria Teresa Teresa Maria Monkey's Paw Muddy River My Compensation My Eyes My Right Eye New Jersey Turnpike New York Social Life Night In Baghdad O Superman O Superman (For Massenet) Odd Objects On The Way To Jerusalem One Beautiful Evening One White Whale Only an Expert Over The River Pieces and Parts Poison Poison [Instrumental][Mix] Private Property Puppet Motel Ramon Red Hot Same Time Tommrow Same Time Tomorrow Say Hello Sharkey's Day Sharkey's Day (Single Edit) Sharkey's Night Slip Away Smoke Rings So Happy Birthday Someone Else's Dream Song For Two Jims Speak My Language Speechless Speechless (The Eagle and the Weasel) Statue of liberty Steven Weed Stiff Neck Strange Angels Strange Perfumes Structuralist Filmmaking Sweaters Talk Normal Talkshow Telephone Song The Beginning of Memory The Big Top The Cultural Ambassador The Day the Devil The Dream Before The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin) The End Of The World The Geographic North Pole The Guests The Healing Horn The Hollywood Strangler The Island Where I Come From The Lake The Language Of The Future The Mailman’s Nightmare The Mysterious "J" The Mysterious \ The Mysterious "J" The Night Flight From Houston The Ouija Board The Puppet Motel The Rotowhirl The Soul Is A Bird The Stranger The Ugly One With The Jewels The Visitors Thinking Of You Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video Three Walking Songs Tightrope Time And A Half Transitory Life Turning Time Around [Lou Reed] Voices On Tape Walk The Dog Walking & Falling Walking & Falling Walking Falling Washington Street White Lily Word Of Mouth World Without End Yankee See

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