I've re-imagined the legendary, priapic Latin American playboy and diplomat PORFIRIO RUBIROSA - the greatest Latin Lover of the Twentieth century - as a sort of hero-poet transfiguration character, or modern day Don Juan... While still a student in Paris in the 1920's Rubi goes through a rebellious phase... and in a fever of youthful inspiration cranks out a single volume of surrealist poetry.

Years later, in his final moments, Rubi cries out for the poet's life that might have been his, and is granted a special miraculous reprieve...

This - along with the parallel story of befuddled Scientist Woody Mezmer's dream journey across America, and the misadventures of a demented Byzantine underground - is the rough basis for the voiceplay SPLENDOR AND DEATH OF PORFIRIO RUBIROSA/ FULGOR Y MUERTE DE PORFIRIO RUBIROSA.

Thanks for listening in.

CB