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== Synopsis ==
== 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 />
3:20: '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 />
3:50: 'The famous writer once asked&hellip;  are we any more
significant than microbes under a microscope?'<ref name=border />
4:30: 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 />
5:30: 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 />
7:30: Joe asks if all our past experiences form our present
state or if we can be free of them.<ref name=border />
8:10: Joe tells the story of Odysseus returning from Troy,
hearing an account of his travails, cries for the first time.<ref name=border />
8:50: 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 />
9:40: '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 />
10:50: 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 />
11:40: 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 />
13:40: Kierkegaard on despair, apparently an accurate
reference.<ref name=border />
14:10: 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 />
15:10: Joe says that wild animals are comfortable with
themselves, aren't self-conscious.<ref name=border />
16:20: Joe asks what we think about TV talk shows that see
both sides of every issue.<ref name=border />
16:50: Joe tells about going to sort-of-church last Sunday.<ref name=border />
17:20: Joe tells of a Russian sect that worshipped holes,
drills a hole to worship.<ref name=border />
19:00: '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 />
19:50: Joe talks about the ambiguities of life, how facts
become obsolete, that complete understanding is impossible.<ref name=border />
23:00: 'The Bible says, in the beginning was the word. But
which word?&hellip;'<ref name=border />
24:00: 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 />
27:50: 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>
29:10: 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 />
30:20: Joe's in a cemetery.<ref name=beautiful />
31:40: 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 />
32:20: Joe tells of being the king of Kabala (sp?) whose power
correlates with the phases of the moon.<ref name=beautiful />
34:10: 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 />
35:10 Joe visits Monte Carmel (sp?) monastery, torched during
the revolution.<ref name=beautiful />
36:20: 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 />
37:20: Someday we'll discover that our real mission on Earth
is to host microbes.<ref name=beautiful />
38:10: Guy with south Asian accent sings 'What the world needs now'.<ref name=beautiful /><ref>
<blockquote>'WHEN FRANK returns to the studio, the actor, Harvey Sachs, is waiting.
<br>
'"You're not what I thought you'd look like," says Sachs, a muscular man with an intense smile.
<br>
'Frank steps back. "What did you expect?"
<br>
'"Someone taller, with sunken eyes, and 10 years younger."
<br>
'Frank lowers his gaze; he's 48. The age nerve seems to be a touchy one.
<br>
'Because Sachs does a convincing East Indian accent, Frank asks him to sing "What the World Needs Now" in the accent.
<br>
'Sachs happily agrees.
<br>
'Frank says: "I want you to talk some of this. We don't need another Caruso." He leaves Sachs in the performance studio and moves to the control booth.
<br>
'From the booth he can see into three other studios. In one of them, KCRW's assistant musical director, Ariana Morgenstern, a young woman with a helmet of short dark hair, a Romanesque profile and graceful, pale arms, is eating green grapes. For the past year and a half, she and Frank have been steady companions. But today, at work, they give no indication that they're aware of each other.
<br>
'Frank cues up the syrupy music. "Don't be nervous," he calls to Sachs. "This is radio. You cannot fail because we can always tape it again."
<br>
'Five takes later, Frank sits on the floor facing the monitor, head cocked like the RCA dog. "It's not working," he says. He lies flat on the carpet, lacing his fingers and resting them on the top of his head. He closes his eyes. "He's gotta talk it." And although Sachs hasn't heard him, the actor suddenly says, "Lord&hellip; the tone of voice of a man chastising a grandfather who's brought his grandchildren 200 Twinkies, "&hellip; we don't need another mountain." Frank sits up. "This is good." He laughs and calls a lunch break. Sachs and Frank return to the big table in the performance studio bearing take-out boxes of marinated vegetables, tofu and tuna. Sachs sits down; Frank purposefully walks to the opposite end of the table, clears it, and takes a seat 12 feet away.'</blockquote>
from [http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-22/magazine/tm-23630_1_joe-frank Radio Noir : 'On the Air, a Voice Like Dirty Honey Tells Stories Grim as Nightmares. If You Think Radio Is All Top 40, You Haven't Heard Joe Frank.']
</ref>
41: The truth about a person is what he or she hides...<ref name=beautiful />
41:20: Joe's uncle is trying to get into his home, physician
has just helped his wife deliver twins.<ref name=beautiful />
42: Child's sense of time is different.<ref name=beautiful />
42:40: Dutchman who fought in Indochina contracted tropical
disease, saw people as skeletons.<ref name=beautiful />
43:20: Joe thinks about all his right hand does for him.<ref name=beautiful />
43:50: 'A blind power could not create an amoeba...'  Joe
argues for Creationism.<ref name=beautiful />
45: Joe drives across the country, finds things the same
everywhere.<ref name=beautiful />
45:50: Joe loves the morning fog...<ref name=beautiful />
46:40: 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 />
47:20: Joe has dream in which he understands everything,
forgets when he wakes up.<ref name=beautiful />
49:00: Joe narrates aggressive, rude driving.<ref name=beautiful />
51:00: 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 />
52:10: 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 />
53:50: '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 />
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<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.
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 ==
== Music ==
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Kakashi (かかし Scarecrow) (Aragon)}} [Intro] {{Unidentified|id=chorusing synth music [11:50]}}
{{Kakashi (かかし Scarecrow) (Aragon)}} [Intro] {{Unidentified|id=chorusing synth music [10:50]}}
{{World Anthem (Charles Ditto)}} [26:49]
{{World Anthem (Charles Ditto)}} [26:49]
{{Eine andere Welt (Another World) (Popol Vuh)}} [31:24]
{{Brüder Des Schattens (Popol Vuh)}} [31:24]
{{What the World Needs Now (Harvey Sachs)}} [38:10]
{{What the World Needs Now (Harvey Sachs)}} [38:10]
{{Creatures (Startled Insects)}} [40:32]
{{Creatures (Startled Insects)}} [40:32]
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* [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]
* [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]
* Some of this material can be heard in a later version in [[Philosophy]].
* Some of this material can be heard in a later version in [[Philosophy]].
== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
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