LINK MADNESS for the dog days of Summer

The middle of summer brings with it a certain madness that can be hard to shake. The “dog days” of summer are as old as the ancient Greeks, at least according to Wikipedia. In the city, people lose their nerve. Normally downtown you find people playing to an audience, though not necessarily one ordinary people can see. But by August, the audience, imagined or not, is gone, beat down by the sun, and even the hot sidewalk cement looks like an inviting place for performers to lay down their heads. Sandwiched between the initial enticements of warm days and the final countdown to fall, the dog days are the intermission.

Unlinked interlude (for dog-day, road-trip passengers): The play “An Enemy of the People” by Henrik Ibsen is resonating as loud as it did in 1882. In it, Dr. Stockmann discovers the town’s water supply — being groomed as a popular spa destination — is poisoned. But when Stockmann sets out to tell the people, the mayor thwarts him. Why? The spa will make this small Danish village into a resort town known around the world. Even the local newspaper is weary of printing the truth. When the town gets a whiff of Stockmann’s discovery the populists move in on him, leaving Stockmann with little else but a lonely truth. Pick up Arthur Miller’s adaptation. It’s a tale for our times.

If you’re still driving the car, maybe pull over for this one. Hulu has another tale for our times. “In the Mouth of Madness” is based on a Stephen King book, stars Sam Neill, and is directed by John Carpenter. An insurance investigator sets out to find the author of a book that is driving people insane. Need I say more? Well, perhaps just this, the takeaway quote. A man in a bar in the fictional town where John Trent (Sam Neill) is trapped: “Reality isn’t what it used to be.”

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