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 == Synopsis ==
+The first 27:50 comes from [[At The Border]], the next 23 from [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]], the last 4 from [[At The Border]].
+Joe walks up to a beautiful woman in a restaurant, tells her
+she will fall madly in love with him.<ref name=border>originally aired in [[At The Border]]</ref>
+Joe, manic for walking, walks from LA to Vancouver, writes a
+book about the psychopathology of tramps, mentions the Russian
+religious sect the Wanderers.<ref>I can't find this.  There were
+wandering monks in 19th century Russia, not a sect.  See
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Pilgrim 'The Way of the Pilgrim']</ref><ref name=border />
+:20: 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' -
+Nietzsche.  Joe recalls Bolkonsky's death at the battle of Borodino in
+'War and Peace.'<ref name=border />
+:50: 'The famous writer once asked...  are we any more
+significant than microbes under a microscope?'<ref name=border />
+:30: Last Christmas, Joe's landlady, dreaming that a mad dog
+was attacking her, threw her baby daughter against the wall, killing
+her.  She found it droll, began to doubt reality, got her nose
+trepanned.<ref name=border />
+:30: Joe used to go out with a woman whose father had lost
+his nose as a child to a fungus, had a variety of prostheses.  Joe
+describes her beautiful mother, her dress and manner.  The daughter
+was nondescript so Joe stopped dating her.<ref name=border />
+:30: Joe asks if all our past experiences form our present
+state or if we can be free of them.<ref name=border />
+:10: Joe tells the story of Odysseus returning from Troy,
+hearing an account of his travails, cries for the first time.<ref name=border />
+:50: Polish Jews tried to pass themselves as gentiles when
+the Russians occupied.  Eastern European immigrants to the west passed
+themselves off as nobles.<ref name=border />
+:40: 'Snowflakes under a microscope, a desert caravan with
+camels on a horizon, rain on a railroad coach window, pebbles in a
+mountain stream, moonlight over the jungle, old photographs, summer
+lightning, cool white sheets, a crater on the horizon, people with
+umbrellas.'<ref name=border />
+:50: Joe describes a construction site on an old potters'
+field.  Apparently Joe is the architect, sees that the house will not
+match his plans.<ref name=border />
+:40: Joe tells a story from Czes&#322;aw Mi&#322;osz about a Soviet
+soldier killing a German POW for his sheepskin coat.  This story is
+nearly the same as the original, which is in <i>The Parallax View</i>.<ref name=border />
+:40: Kierkegaard on despair, apparently an accurate
+reference.<ref name=border />
+:10: Joe talks about the movie <i>The invisible man</i>, observes
+that he had to put clothes and bandages on to be seen, asks what we
+expect people to see in us.<ref name=border />
+:10: Joe says that wild animals are comfortable with
+themselves, aren't self-conscious.<ref name=border />
+:20: Joe asks what we think about TV talk shows that see
+both sides of every issue.<ref name=border />
+:50: Joe tells about going to sort-of-church last Sunday.<ref name=border />
+:20: Joe tells of a Russian sect that worshipped holes,
+drills a hole to worship.<ref name=border />
+:00: 'Oh, wondrous void, eternal nothingness.  I offer
+myself so that you might cast your inscrutable dear silence upon me.
+Oh lustrous hole, symbol of the greater glory of absence, darkness,
+and mystery beyond the realm of human thought.  Let me ask for your
+grace and forgiveness in the knowledge that I shall serve you all the
+days of my meaningless life.'<ref name=border />
+:50: Joe talks about the ambiguities of life, how facts
+become obsolete, that complete understanding is impossible.<ref name=border />
+:00: 'The Bible says, in the beginning was the word. But
+which word?...'<ref name=border />
+:00: Joe describes a surreal trip on a horizontal elevator,
+calling his father for help; he smokes a pack of Chesterfields in the
+phone booth all at once.<ref name=border />
+:50: Joe tells about his father, the famous surgeon, who
+blamed his patients when they died under his care, sued them for
+undermining his practice.  After a distraught husband of a patient who
+died killed him Joe searched for his murderer for so long he forgot
+what he was searching for.<ref name=beautiful>originally aired in [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]</ref>
+:10: Joe's in a railroad station, tries to buy a ticket to
+Denver, after an absurd exchange he drives. Absurd events follow.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe's in a cemetery.<ref name=beautiful />
+:40: Joe tells about rich man who died, his body was taken
+to Darjeeling to be burnt, but rains put the fire out, then the man
+revived.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe tells of being the king of Kabala (sp?) whose power
+correlates with the phases of the moon.<ref name=beautiful />
+:10: The Roman army of Aelius Gallus lost its way in north
+Africa, miguided by his Nabatean guide, eventually made war on an
+inland sea.<ref>According to Wikipedia Aelius Gallus was Roman prefect of
+Egypt 26-24 BCE, undertook an expedition to Arabia (not north Africa),
+did lose.</ref><ref name=beautiful />
+:10 Joe visits Monte Carmel (sp?) monastery, torched during
+the revolution.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe saw a new play at the Hollywood Bowl, all scenes
+based on the Bible, all the actors dressed as concentration camp
+prisoners.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Someday we'll discover that our real mission on Earth
+is to host microbes.<ref name=beautiful />
+:10: Guy with south Asian accent (sounds like a parody to
+me) sings (poorly) 'What the world needs now'.<ref name=beautiful />
+: The truth about a person is what he or she hides...<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe's uncle is trying to get into his home, physician
+has just helped his wife deliver twins.<ref name=beautiful />
+: Child's sense of time is different.<ref name=beautiful />
+:40: Dutchman who fought in Indochina contracted tropical
+disease, saw people as skeletons.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe thinks about all his right hand does for him.<ref name=beautiful />
+:50: 'A blind power could not create an amoeba...'  Joe
+argues for Creationism.<ref name=beautiful />
+: Joe drives across the country, finds things the same
+everywhere.<ref name=beautiful />
+:50: Joe loves the morning fog...<ref name=beautiful />
+:40: In 1900, remains of ancient civilization of Crete were
+found,<ref>Knossos was discovered in 1878, first excavated in 1900.</ref>
+Imagines a future archaeologist stumbling across a buried Los Angeles.<ref name=beautiful />
+:20: Joe has dream in which he understands everything,
+forgets when he wakes up.<ref name=beautiful />
+:00: Joe narrates aggressive, rude driving.<ref name=beautiful />
+:00: Joe tells of his farmer father, who lost it to debt.
+They moved to the city where he took a job at a screw factory, got
+caught in the threader, was threaded to death.<ref name=border />
+:10: Joe took his place, was attracted to the woman who
+worked next to him.  They walked a mountain path to a cliff, looked
+out over the empty quarter.<ref name=border />
+:50: 'Oh, wondrous void, eternal nothingness, I offer myself
+so that you might cast your inscrutable dear silence upon me.  Oh
+lustrous hole, symbol of the greater glory of absence, darkness, and
+mystery, beyond the realm of human thought - let me ask for your grace
+and your forgiveness in the knowledge that I shall serve you all the
+days of my meaningless life.'<ref name=border />
+<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">
 An early reading of the "compulsion to wander" bit, story of end of WWII, Russian hole worshippers, drill (again the early version), nice absurd lost bit, honking at building to move, rich man becomes wise man after his funeral then recovers his memory and sues everyone to recover his past life, bible scenes played by actors in concentration camp outfits.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
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 * [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]
 * Some of this material can be heard in a later version in [[Philosophy]].
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]