Overview--Dada: Chapter 17

Chris is watching his father's art school movie.  It starts out with three men (including his father) waking up in a certain state common to men.  They get through their morning routine all but oblivious to their states.  They then go to their jobs (doctor, businessman, and art history instructor for Chris's dad).  All the people they meet are also oblivious to their continued state of "excitement."  Strangely enough, all the other people in the movie are women.  While the other two men just have a regular work day, Chris's father is conducting a lesson on the art movement known as Dada.  Chris is more familiar with the movement's literary side.  The combination of the familiarity to the subject and the intensive heat in the room cause Chris to fall asleep.  He wakes up a few minutes later, near the end of the movie.  He sees his father give a rousing finale to his speech, when the screen goes black.  A second later, a new scene starts at the apartment of the doctor.  He is giving a party with a large number of women, and the other two men.  All three are still in the same state.  Chris notices some strange sounds around him, a humming as well as familiar thrumming movements.  In the film, the party ends but the three men stay behind.  They begin disrobing, and their states are clearly evident.  As each man gets naked, a woman enters holding a ruler to measure him.  The woman for Chris's father is his mother, who looks uncomfortable being there.  Chris's father is the winner.  The men then look at each other and begin to mimic a certain action.  Chris suddenly looks away and discovers that most of the audience is in a state of nudity themselves.  All, both men and women, are performing actions similar actions to those on screen.  Chris can't take it anymore.  He yells "Stop!" and quickly leaves the room