>[256] If you picture the actor Edward Herrmann with his
>hair dyed Kool-Aid orange, you've just about got my mental image of
>the auctioneer. I mean no disrespect to Mr. Herrmann, and I'm
>certainly not suggesting that that's what his voice sounds like - he's
>one of my favorite books-on-tape artists - that's just how it is.

I remember him mostly from Dodge commercials in the 90s (circa the Neon) and from before that as the visiting surgeon who winds up in Hawkeye's tent sadly explaining that the blood won't come off.

>[655] The telegraphic choppiness and occasional
>random-seeming changes of person in this segment are a deliberate
>attempt to convey the sort of wildly spiraling, camera-shaking,
>in-and-out-of-focus effect that a scene like this would have on film.

Something it accomplished very well, IMO.