K-PAX-Planetary System by MagikUnicorn

Fractal • Space • posted on Feb 07, 2015

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Description

In 1990, a white male is picked up by the New York Police after being found bending over the victim of a mugging at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan. After having responded to the police questions with somewhat strange answers, he is transferred to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation. Although not physically ill, he is found to harbour a strange delusion: that he is from a planet called K-PAX in the constellation of Lyra. The patient, who calls himself "prot" (intentionally lower-case to reflect the insignificance of an individual life form in the universe), is eventually transferred to the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute (MPI), where he becomes the patient of Dr. Gene Brewer. Prot is extremely fond of fruit, which he eats during each session, including banana skins and apple cores. He tells Brewer that he is 337 (Earth) years old, that he has visited Earth often, and that on this visit he has traveled to most of the world's countries for the past 4 years and 9 months. He has a good sense of humor (during their first session, he says, "But don't worry - I'm not going to leap out of your chest," an allusion to the film Alien). Brewer discovers that prot also possesses arcane information about astronomy, which, later, astronomers become very excited about; prot appears to be a savant. Prot also claims to understand most human languages (at least enough to get by) as well as the languages of animals, including whale song, and the apparent gibberish of some of the schizophrenic patients. Though prot's dialogue is usually satirical, he turns out to be highly suggestible and easily hypnotized. Once Brewer learns this, real therapy begins. Brewer, with the help of a journalist named Giselle Griffin, discovers that prot may be an alter ego (the result of Multiple Personality Disorder) of Robert Porter, whose life has been devastated by the murder of his wife and child and his subsequent killing of the perpetrator. Brewer speculates that the name prot is "derived, presumably, from Porter." When prot "returns" to his own planet, Robert Porter is left in a catatonic state. However, Bess (another patient prot had promised to take with him) disappears along with a box of souvenirs prot has been collecting. Prot promises to return in "about five of your years."

Comments (26)

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MagikUnicorn

1:25AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

VIDEO ABOUT K-PAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4XxWoKT7ks

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giulband

1:57AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

OH wonderful !! It make me think at a passage between our dimension to another through the energy of a black hole !!

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UteBigSmile

2:16AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

This is AWESOME!!! Just love it!

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DennisReed

2:23AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

cool

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Jean_C

3:04AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Un design d'une grande finesse, superbe image!

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Leije

3:47AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Graphisme et couleurs sont splendides !

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ansgar2

5:39AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

EXCELLENT Fantastic work....!!!!

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rayag

6:54AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Fantastic creation !!!

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bebopdlx

9:15AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Beautiful.

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Glendaw

9:31AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Awesome Sci-fi story and fractal visual. Great job Magik !

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magnus073

9:47AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Magik, ce est une image colorée et étonnant que vous avez créé. Je ai apprécié la lecture sur (prot) et l'apprentissage sur le système K-PAX-planétaire. Ce est un conte fantastique. Je ai toujours plaisir lorsque vous présentez productions éducatives comme celui-ci pour nous. Merci pour le lien vers la vidéo.

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Faemike55

10:23AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

fabulous image and very interesting commentary/narrative

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jendellas

10:55AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Very, very interexting, love the image. X

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Cyve

10:59AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

WOW... AWESOME creation and composition !!! C'est image est vraiment fabuleuse cousin !!!

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ia-du-lin

11:26AM | Sat, 07 February 2015

wonderful fractal and presentation

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MarciaGomes

12:24PM | Sat, 07 February 2015

Espetacular fractal meu amigo adoro os detalhes e cores.impressionante história será que" Prot " é louco ou realmente é de outro planeta?++++++++++++++5

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