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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The story picks up where part 2 left off: Protagon (the protagonist of | |||
the story, whom I give this name to make writing this synopsis easier) | |||
and Ali walking back to Naim's after their conversation at the café. | |||
Ali tells Protagon about how groups mistreated outsiders, colonizers | |||
the colonized, big business third-worlders. | |||
2:40: Naim and Protagon spend weekends touring Sana'a's old city, the | |||
Red Sea port city Hodeida, and Taiz (capital of South Yemen). | |||
4:00: Protagon can't see a future with Naim. She gets mad. They | |||
fight. | |||
6:40: Ali gives Protagon a letter to carry back to America. Protagon | |||
worries that it may have a sinister purpose but takes it. | |||
9:00: The day after he got back 'the next morning an Arab wearing an | |||
expensive Western-style business suit and a pair of dark glasses came | |||
by the apartment to pick up Ali's uncle's envelope.'<ref>sounds like a | |||
depiction of an Arab that Naim deplored in American movies.</ref> | |||
9:20: 'in the middle of December he called Naim to tell her how much | |||
he missed her' which just makes her mad; she tells him not to call | |||
again. | |||
9:40: He visits his parents in Cleveland, tells them, for the first | |||
time, the real purpose of his trip. They're appalled at first but he | |||
makes up a story that makes him out a hero. They arrange a small | |||
party to celebrate his heroism. | |||
11:40: He places an ad in the [http://washingtoncitypaper.com <i>City Paper</i>]'s | |||
personals, SJM looking for an SJF. He's surprised by all the | |||
responses. The first date stands him up, without explanation. The | |||
second is a psychoanalyst who wants to analyze him, so he drops her. | |||
He and the third date a few times, have no sex; after a farcical | |||
Passover Seder at her parents he drops her. | |||
17:20: Protagon has a longer relationship with the fourth, Michelle. | |||
She's into submission so much it bothers him though. They vacation on | |||
the resort her father owns on St. Thomas (Virgin Islands).<ref>The | |||
story in [[The Queen Of Puerto Rico]] starts on St. Thomas; Henry | |||
Dennis's stories in [[The Future]] and [[Margarita]] start on | |||
St. Thomas</ref> It's luxurious for them. The motor on a boat they take | |||
out fails; they have to swim, spend a night rough, walk back to town. | |||
They tour the parts of the resort where the work is done, see how | |||
miserable, dirty, and dangerous it is. | |||
31:50: Joe tells the story of Beauregard, the famous hitchhiking dog | |||
of St. Thomas, who rode buses, boats, and planes, was celebrated by | |||
all, given a funeral when he died.<ref>Fictional, as near as I can | |||
tell.</ref> | |||
35:50: Protagon learns of a bombing of the Israeli embassy when he | |||
gets back.<ref>I can't find this.</ref> | |||
37:50: Protagon loses his job at the recording studio. Michelle tries | |||
to get him to go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespring Lifespring], | |||
a 'human potential organization'. | |||
38:30: Naim calls in April, 4 months after they had last spoken. | |||
She's visiting in May. | |||
39:20: Protagon picks up Naim at the airport. | |||
40:10: They go to see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan <i>Star Trek 2</i>]<ref>released 1982 June 4 - a | |||
lot earlier than the present time of the story</ref>. They see a | |||
trailer for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Defense <i>Best defense</i>]<ref>released 1984 July 20</ref>, which | |||
depicts Arabs as fools, which angers Naim. She's come to divorce | |||
Kamal, who is now trying to start a burger chain in the Middle East, | |||
Queen of Sheba, which angers Naim for its abuse of her name. | |||
42:20: Michelle gets him to go to Lifespring, which he dislikes, which | |||
ends their relationship. | |||
45:40: He writes Naim a letter, wants to get back together. | |||
47:30: The narrator describes a Queen of Sheba burger joint, how bad | |||
the food is, how wasteful. | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
The man's meek stepfather and commanding mother. The man and woman fight and break up in Yemen. He delivers a letter for the woman's ex. He returns home and tells his family about the trip. He takes classes at a Jewish cultural center, takes out personal ads. Joe reads Letter written by his dates. He dates a humorless therapist, someone looking to get in touch with hew Jewish identity, and a snobby faux-french intellectual. They vacation in St. Thomas in her father's hotel. He chats with a bar tender about the island history. They go on an idyllic boat trip. He visits the servant's part of the hotel. The story of a famous hitchhiking dog whose funeral procession causes the man to miss his return flight. He returns home and finds that the man to whom he delivered a letter had been shot while planting a bomb in the Israeli embassy. He goes on unemployment, begins to have trouble with the woman he's seeing who wants him to attend Life Spring meetings. The Yemeni woman returns. They go to a Star Trek movie and the previews offend her. They decide that the relationship is really over. His parents get busted for insider trading. Middle eastern fast food restaurants. | The man's meek stepfather and commanding mother. The man and woman fight and break up in Yemen. He delivers a letter for the woman's ex. He returns home and tells his family about the trip. He takes classes at a Jewish cultural center, takes out personal ads. Joe reads Letter written by his dates. He dates a humorless therapist, someone looking to get in touch with hew Jewish identity, and a snobby faux-french intellectual. They vacation in St. Thomas in her father's hotel. He chats with a bar tender about the island history. They go on an idyllic boat trip. He visits the servant's part of the hotel. The story of a famous hitchhiking dog whose funeral procession causes the man to miss his return flight. He returns home and finds that the man to whom he delivered a letter had been shot while planting a bomb in the Israeli embassy. He goes on unemployment, begins to have trouble with the woman he's seeing who wants him to attend Life Spring meetings. The Yemeni woman returns. They go to a Star Trek movie and the previews offend her. They decide that the relationship is really over. His parents get busted for insider trading. Middle eastern fast food restaurants. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Facades (Philip Glass)}} [Intro] | {{Facades (Philip Glass)}} [Intro] | ||
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== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother." | The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother." | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||