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 == Synopsis ==
+Joe defends himself in court from charges that he raped Miss Sinclair,
+recounts minute details of her home and estate.  Joe claims he was
+working in his lab on a a cure for a rare disease that affects
+beautiful young women.  The first girl cured has a restraining order
+against him.  Joe admits he took advantage of his role as a radio star
+to seduce young women.  When he gets home from court, his girlfriend
+remonstrates with him about all the young women with whom he has
+affairs.  He says his successful therapy with Dr Nierenberg has cured
+him.<ref>Joe gets a recorded message from Dr Nierenberg in [[When I'm Calling You]]
+when he calls Tele-health of Los Angeles.</ref> She leaves him.
+:40: 'Later that night, alone in bed, I dreamt I was a
+diplomat attending a reception at a foreign embassy.  But I stank so
+powerfully that it was as though a toilet had exploded wherever I
+stood.  Finally, I was ushered into a small antechamber where a butler
+attempted to wipe away the urine and feces that covered my tuxedo with
+a clothes brush.  But as he did this, he seemed to be erasing me as
+well.  With every stroke of the brush, another part of my anatomy
+disappeared, and I realized he was destroying me.  And I grabbed at
+the brush, and as we fought over it, my shoulder bumped up against a
+button, and the fireplace moved aside, revealing a hidden passageway.
+And I ran into it, down a long dark tunnel and up a flight of stairs,
+and then out into the great, open, starry night of a meadow filled
+with fragrant grass - when I saw, passing above me, a dirigible from
+which depended a large gondola.  And in the gondola, I could see a man
+in a striped suit clutching at the bars of a cage in what was
+apparently a prison transport ship.'
+:00: Joe finds himself at the apartment of Veronica, a beautiful
+movie star (in porn films).  She invites him in for a drink, talk
+about her movies.  He gives her an envelope of money.  They make love.
+After, Joe dreams he's a bullfighter gets impaled on an umbrella
+stand.<ref>Compare the fate of the bullfighter in [[Arena]]</ref> When
+he wakes they talk about his work as a registered nurse.
+:00: Joe consults famous psychologist Weinberg about his obsession
+with death and women.  Weinberg tells him to go to the morgue and make
+love to a corpse.
+:00: Joe tells us that Joe Frank is just a character he created whom
+he pretends to be.
+:40: Father Malcolm was a priest.  Bertram was the only Jewish
+altarboy.  Father Malcolm kissed him, which rendered Bertram mute for
+years, made him the best student at the yeshiva.
+:20: After seeing <i>Triumph of the Will</i> Bertram cultivated
+German friends and German culture.  He joined a motorcycle gang.  They
+terrorized a town in New Mexico, lived as bandits.
+:40: Bertram became a mime.<ref>Bertram Fields was the name of the
+mime in <ref>Either/Or'</ref>.  A mysterious woman, named Veronica,
+dressed in black, knocks on his hotel room door, says he can help her,
+mentions a person he doesn't know. <ref>This is similar to a segment
+of [[Islands]]: both women are dressed in black, claim a mutual
+acquaintance unknown to Joe, claim they can be an asset to the firm -
+though Bertram has no firm.</ref> She claims to work for a firm that
+makes a machine that creates time, describes its amazing properties.
+Trying to put her off, Bertram claims to have an appointment for
+breakfast with friends, though it's midnight.  When she remonstrates,
+Bertram explains with an outlandish story.
+:30: The phone rings 5 times; neither of them pick up.  When there's
+a knock at the door, she makes Bertram hide in the closet.  The man
+who comes in seems to have the same experience Joe did with Veronica
+at 15:00.  Bertram rigs a hangman's harness on himself in the closet
+to shock her when she opens the door.
+:30: Joe talks about the mysteries of time.
+:40: Bertram seduces Veronica.  Afterwards, at 2 AM, he leaves,
+claiming that he teaches a dance class at 3 AM, then cleans subway
+cars at 5.
+:10: A few days later they take a ride on hay wagon in the country.
+Joe wonders if they're real or characters in a novel or serialized
+stories.  A passing car veers off the road to miss their wagon.  A
+priest falls out of it, dead, also a whiskey bottle.  Bertram and
+Veronica bury him and perform an improvised service.  They drink some
+of the whiskey, pour the rest on the grave.  It's Father Malcolm.
+They write his name, birth date, and this date, in chalk on the
+bottle, use it as a headstone.
+:20: 'I don't think I'm rationalizing when I say that adultery is
+merely what happens when the normal course of events in the biological
+life of a man are defined by the boundaries of marriage.  If you
+didn't have marriage, there would be no adultery, but man's behavior
+would be the same.  It's completely contextual.'
+:40: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_my_daisy 'Pull my daisy'] - David Amram<ref>Originally a poem written by
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg Alan Ginsberg],
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Jack Kerouac], and
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady Neal Cassady] in the
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse exquisite corpse]
+manner.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram David Amram] set
+it to music.  This rendition comes from Amram's 'No More Walls' album;
+the singer is Lynn Sheffield. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank Robert Frank] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Leslie Alfred Leslie] made a short film of the same name in
+.</ref>
+<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">
 *Joe in the courtroom defending himself against her accusations, but he knows absurdly too much about her home and lifestyle. His alibi: treating young children with horrific diseases, but his witness cannot appear because of a restraining order. Flirting with a juror. I object!