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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Larry attributes his 'gnawing sense of self-loathing' to how he looked | |||
(fat) in a recording of his one-man show, | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/theater/theater-review-in-an-immigrant-s-tatters-comfort-for-the-dreamers.html <i>Uncle Philip's Coat</i>]. He tells of people who tell him he has a | |||
wonderful life - but they don't have to live it. Larry says people | |||
are shocked when he tells them he's an actor but they don't recognize | |||
him; he starts telling them he's a failed actor. On a flight the | |||
person behind kicks his seat, but Larry doesn't want to confront him; | |||
when the plane lands, the guy recognizes Larry; he and his wife are | |||
excited to see him. | |||
6:10: Jack Kornfield talks about the quality of love, quotes Merton, | |||
who uses rain as an example of non-judgment. | |||
8:20: Larry tells Joe that he can't buy Dewar's on the road, buys John | |||
Barr (an inferior brand). He recounts his performance of <i>Uncle | |||
Philip's Coat</i> at Hampshire College. (It paid $1200.) He forgot the | |||
clothes for the performance, had to buy them at a mall.<ref>The woman | |||
arranging his show is Pearl-Anne Margalit | |||
https://www.wmassjewishledger.com/2012/09/pearl-anne-margalit-heads-adl-major-gifts/</ref> | |||
He gets back home at 3 AM, has to fly to Seattle for | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chairs Ionesco's <i>The chairs</i>] at 6 | |||
AM. Larry complains that the play is nonsense, the death of the | |||
theatre, anti-theatre; he's dismayed that people take it seriously. | |||
He wants to walk out but needs the work. Larry thinks that Joe isn't | |||
going to use this segment on his show. | |||
16:50: Kornfield tells us that we all suffer pain, should be | |||
compassionate with ourselves. He says one of the great practices is | |||
to pretend that you're enlightened and try to act that way. | |||
19:50: Larry tells Joe that he has to go to bed, can't promise that he | |||
will use Larry's material on his show, won't pay him if he doesn't. | |||
Larry's unhappy with talking to Joe but not getting paid for it, tries | |||
to negotiate alternative payment; Joe refuses. | |||
26:50: Kornfield quotes <i>Ecclesiastes</i>, 'To everything there is a | |||
season...'<ref>3:1</ref> to introduce the idea of things always | |||
changing, that we have to learn to accept it. He tells the joke about | |||
the department store that asks a customer what the neighbors would | |||
think if they repossessed his furniture. He tells the story of the | |||
fellow in a boat on the river, run into by an empty boat, then by one | |||
with a man in it. | |||
31:20: Larry tells about acting in | |||
[https://www.facebook.com/theworkroomnyc <i>The Workroom</i>] in | |||
Baltimore about 1982. It's about a sewing factory in Paris after the | |||
war. They visit a sewing factory in Baltimore. The workers there are | |||
contemptuous of them, tell them actors can't understand their work. | |||
Larry recurs to how Joe pays him. Joe tells Larry that if he had to | |||
pay 'top dollar' for every conversation he couldn't afford it, would | |||
fire him. | |||
41:40: Kornfield says that nothing can appease suffering but facing | |||
it. | |||
47:10: Larry says there must be a Larry-Block following in Joe's | |||
audience, that Joe should advertise his works at the end of Joe's | |||
shows, as he does Kornfield's. | |||
48:40: Kornfield asks how we can judge others when we don't know their | |||
stories.<ref>He mentions Stephen Levine and a hospice nurse he also | |||
mentioned in [[Karma (Part 7)]].</ref> | |||
55:40: Larry and Joe talk about payment more. Larry describes Joe's | |||
luxurious life (yachts, chauffeured limousines, olympic pool...) | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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*[[Larry Block]] - Considers his life/occupation as a mediocre actor. | *[[Larry Block]] - Considers his life/occupation as a mediocre actor. | ||
*[[Jack Kornfield]] - Talking Rain (solitude). | *[[Jack Kornfield]] - Talking Rain (solitude). | ||
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*Kornfield - How can we judge each other? The Earth receives all things. May I be at Peace. | *Kornfield - How can we judge each other? The Earth receives all things. May I be at Peace. | ||
*Larry - Rates have gone up. Larry claims Joe has a lavish life and can pay for him. | *Larry - Rates have gone up. Larry claims Joe has a lavish life and can pay for him. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Bristol Switch (Fink)}} [1:18] | {{Bristol Switch (Fink)}} [1:18] | ||
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/theater/theater-review-in-an-immigrant-s-tatters-comfort-for-the-dreamers.html Review of "Uncle Philip's Coat"]. Lawrence Van Gelder, ''The New York Times'', May 14, 1998. | * [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/theater/theater-review-in-an-immigrant-s-tatters-comfort-for-the-dreamers.html Review of "Uncle Philip's Coat"]. Lawrence Van Gelder, ''The New York Times'', May 14, 1998. | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category: Karma_Style]] | [[Category: Karma_Style]] | ||
[[Category: Larry Block]] | [[Category: Larry Block]] |