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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Larry tells Joe about his fantasy life when he eats: he imagines being | |||
an FBI investigator in the case of | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit] and the | |||
disappearance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy] | |||
and another in which he imagines he's a smart detective who plays | |||
dumb, hoping that will place the suspect off-guard. | |||
4:10: Jack Kornfield describes | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow Abraham Maslow]'s | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs hierarchy of human needs]. | |||
It placed spirituality at the top; Kornfield disagrees, says it's more | |||
important. | |||
6:00: Zachary tells Joe about a security guard running him and his | |||
buddy off from drinking in a building hallway. | |||
6:40: Larry tells Joe he doesn't care about Zachary's drinking. | |||
7:30: Joe tells Larry that Zachary is copying Larry's behavior, that | |||
Zachary is angry with Larry because of Larry's behavior. Larry | |||
defends his drinking. | |||
12:50: Larry quotes | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor Walter Savage Landor]'s | |||
[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44562/dying-speech-of-an-old-philosopher 'Dying Speech ofan Old Philosopher']: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
<pre> | |||
'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: | |||
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: | |||
I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life; | |||
It sinks; and I am ready to depart.' | |||
</pre> | |||
</blockquote> | |||
except Larry says 'It stinks', and means it.<ref>Did he misremember? | |||
Freudianly slip? Do it deliberately?</ref> | |||
15:10: Larry recurs to his performance in <i>Comedy of errors</i> in | |||
'Shakespeare in the park' (1975). Joe says Larry failed because of | |||
his drinking and drug use. Larry disputes this. | |||
16:50: Joe takes a brief call from Kristine McKenna on call-waiting, | |||
makes an appointment. | |||
17:20: Kornfield remembers doing walking meditation in the dark in the | |||
forest when he was at the monastery in southeast Asia, the | |||
loving-kindness meditation, blessing all beings; he explains why the | |||
Buddha invented it. | |||
21:30: Kristine McKenna tells Joe about taking him to the emergency | |||
department. After delaying treatment with the usual paperwork they | |||
eventually figured out he was bleeding in the stomach, had lost 2 | |||
pints. Joe disagrees with her description of his behavior. Joe | |||
thought he might have been dying, couldn't think of anyone close to | |||
call. He noticed how he felt close to the nurses who took care of | |||
him, his roommate Roy. But on the ride home he was dismayed that his | |||
angry habits returned. | |||
32:30: Kornfield says that what matters at the end of life is whether | |||
we loved well. | |||
33:50: Larry tells Joe he got in trouble because he left an e-mail to | |||
Marilyn<ref>the woman he had an affair with in [[Karma (Part 4)]], | |||
called in [[The Box]].</ref> open on his computer - Jolly saw it, | |||
suggested he move to California and live with her. | |||
37:20: David Rapkin tells Joe imagining an alternative life sailing | |||
alone around the world, waxes poetic. | |||
40:00: Larry and Joe argue about whether Larry is responsible for his | |||
failure. | |||
49:40: Kornfield talks about the blessing of mercy. | |||
51:30: Sharon, on the phone with Joe, tells him about this person who | |||
showed up at her house, wanting to use the bathroom - it's Larry. She | |||
let him in and he wants to stay. She won't let him stay.<ref>When Joe | |||
appeared on a fund-raiser on WFMU he said they hired an actress to | |||
play this, that it's fictional.</ref> | |||
53:30: Kornfield tells about his good friend | |||
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner Michael Harner, an exponent of shamanic practice] | |||
communing with a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine bristlecone pine], | |||
the world's oldest living things, older than 4,000 years, what he | |||
learns from it - then quotes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke], 'Being alive means not numbering | |||
or counting but ripening like a tree which doesn't force its sap and | |||
stands in the storms of spring not afraid that summer may not come - | |||
it does come, it always comes.' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 'Letters to a Young Poet']) | |||
<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"> | |||
*Larry - fantasies while he's eating: being a cop, confronting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit]. | *Larry - fantasies while he's eating: being a cop, confronting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit]. | ||
*Kornfield - reordering Maslow's hierarchy and a story of a destitute man in India who wants to talk about religion. | *Kornfield - reordering Maslow's hierarchy and a story of a destitute man in India who wants to talk about religion. | ||
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*Woman - She lets a street guy use her bathroom, he won't leave - it's Larry!<ref>In a call-in to WFMU Joe says this segment was fictional, that they had to hire an actor to play the woman - apparently Sharon O'Connell</ref> | *Woman - She lets a street guy use her bathroom, he won't leave - it's Larry!<ref>In a call-in to WFMU Joe says this segment was fictional, that they had to hire an actor to play the woman - apparently Sharon O'Connell</ref> | ||
*Kornfield - reads from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet ''Letters to a Young Poet'']: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come." | *Kornfield - reads from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet ''Letters to a Young Poet'']: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come." | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Spiritual Healing (Toots Hibbert)}} [4:02] | {{Spiritual Healing (Toots Hibbert)}} [4:02] | ||
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== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[David Rapkin]], Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher [[Jack Kornfield]], and Joe Frank. Production: [[Ray Guarna]]. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson. Special thanks to Cally Rose." | The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[David Rapkin]], Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher [[Jack Kornfield]], and Joe Frank. Production: [[Ray Guarna]]. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson. Special thanks to Cally Rose."<ref>The credits on joefrank.com don't mention Sharon O'Connell; I figure | ||
she has to be the actress he hired for the penultimate segment.</ref> | |||
==Commentary== | |||
The bristlecone pines are wonderful. You can see them in the | |||
White Mountains of California. | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == |