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 == Synopsis ==
+This episode is 100% re-used content, first from [[The Dictator (Part 1)]]
+then [[Iceland (Part 2)]], then [[On The Edge]], [[Joe Frank's America]], and [[I'm Not Crazy]]
+'They drive by night'
+:50: Joe remembers the great drought.<ref name=dictator1>originally aired in [[The Dictator (Part 1)]]</ref>
+:00: It rains for 3 months, drowning everybody and thing,
+except Joe, who grabs an uprooted tree trunk, floats to a new village,
+where a family adopts him.<ref name=dictator1 />
+:00: The new village is farmers.  A cruel neighboring tribe
+kills all, except Joe, who buries himself, breathes through a reed
+during the raid.<ref name=dictator1 />
+:40: 'One more night' (Can) - a canter sings in the
+background.
+:10: 'I came to the rabbi in a state of crisis...'  Joe
+describes the home of a well-appointed rabbi.<ref>originally aired in [[Iceland (Part 2)]]</ref>
+:10: Joe tells of taking the train to Grasporia (sp?): a
+peasant woman with chickens, a beautiful young woman in tears, the
+beauty of the countryside.  He gets sick to his stomach, remembers his
+father, a carver of wooden dolls.<ref name=iceland2 />
+:20: Joe recounts digging in an ancient cemetery on the
+upper Nile.  They find a sarcophagus, open its lid, find a grand party
+underneath, that the lid is a skylight to a ballroom.<ref name=iceland2 />
+:30:  Party noises, 'In the mood' (Glenn Miller)
+:20:  'One more night' (Can)
+:40: Joe's walking along ashore at Cape Cod at dusk,
+describes the sights, smells, and sounds.  A pickup drives at him.
+The driver has his favorite hat, which he lost 3 months ago.<ref name=iceland2 />
+:30:  'One more night' (Can)
+:00: 'The girl from Ipanema' (Joe).  He's singing in a jazz
+club.  He describes the audience.  He's both doing what he's always
+wanted to do and hates the club.  He wants to tell the people in the
+audience what he thinks of them.<ref name=iceland2 />
+:30: Joe speculates about the nature of death, imagines
+'bought the farm', which goes awry when foreclosed upon.<ref name=edge>originally aired in [[On The Edge]]</ref>
+:50: Joe tells of singing in the Pelican lounge, goes
+through his pockets, finds: 'a hotel key, a harmonica, a pine cone, a
+field guide for identifying shrubbery, an expanding cuff for a blood
+pressure meter, a tranquilizing suppository, brown rice, an egg
+containing a religious diorama of Calvary, a canister of mace, a wind
+sock.' to 'Me and my shadow'.<ref name=america>originally aired in [[Joe Frank's America]]</ref>
+:30:   Someone (Joe?  I'm not sure) declaims, loudly, the pride
+he takes in the name Joe Frank - then gives up.<ref name=america />
+:20:  'I'm sorry, I'm too tense, I drank too much, I've been
+thinking about the office, I'm tired, I'm distracted, I'm upset.': Joe
+explains why he's unhappy.<ref name=crazy>originally aired in [[I'm Not Crazy]]</ref>
+:30:  Joe tells all the wrong things he's doing: 'I'm
+lighting the wrong ends of my cigarettes; I'm using erasers to fill in
+the forms at work; I mailed the telephone to Sharper Image and
+expected to receive my credit card in return.'<ref name=crazy />
+Joe lists all the things he needs, for example, 'I need
+whalebone stays in the corset of my life's forgotten days.'<ref name=crazy />
+:50: Joe lists all the things he needs, for example, 'I need
+whalebone stays in the corset of my life's forgotten days.'<ref name=crazy />
+:20: A series of odd things: dropped briefcase, running a
+stop sign, his orthodontist's odd treatment, trying to give his liver
+to someone who doesn't need one.<ref name=crazy />
+:50: Joe hates circus clowns, 'brown paper bags wrapped in
+string', house painters, jazz musicians, people who see through him -
+for absurd reasons.<ref name=crazy />
+:30: Joe finds his diary proofread, objects.<ref name=crazy />
+: 'Last night, as the teacups rattled on the saucers, as the
+walls undulated, as the fish tank overflowed, and the fissures in the
+carpet opened, I thought of Richardson's casual sarcasm concerning my
+recent face lift, of Spitz's disparaging remarks about my finger
+rolls, of Lipstein's lewd reference to my daughter, and swore an oath
+of vengeance.'<ref name=crazy />
+:20: 'You know, lately I've been reading abridgments of Guy
+de Maupassant stories along with the Torah-like endless scroll of my
+hospital chart the seismic record of my digestive and pulmonary
+actions, my bile excretions, stool fecundity, sperm count, cell
+regeneration, skin loss, dilation of the duodenum, volatility of my
+blood.'
+'Last night I dreamt an endless toilet paper-like roll of dollar bills
+flowed from my pocket, the core itself fragrant, edible, and highly
+nourishing.'<ref name=crazy />
+:50: 'You left me in a parachute harness, moth-eaten and
+threadbare, in a restaurant...', then in a waiting room, then in a
+lawyer's office, and other terrible things people did to him.<ref name=crazy />
+:40: 'Don't ever go through my sock drawer again...' a poem.<ref name=crazy />
+:00: Last night Joe dreamt he carried a paper bag with the
+heads of 4 people in it, then thinks a number of odd things.<ref name=crazy />
+:50: Joe protests that he's not crazy, disparages the people
+who have opinions of him because of his shows.  He talks about what's
+crazy and what isn't, cites examples.<ref name=crazy />
+:40: Joe speculates about the nature of death, imagines
+'going to the Hotel Paradise', which goes awry when guerrillas destroy
+the regime that protects the hotel.<ref name=edge />
+:20: Joe talks about death,  'Death is a dancing mirage...',
+describes it with many images, all the things it will do.<ref name=edge />
+:40:  Gunshot.
 A great drought decimates a village and is followed by flood. A band of raiders attacks a village and cuts off the thumbs of the villagers.   Scenes from a train: a compartment with a peasant woman, a beautiful lady, and chickens, being sick and discovering subtle profundity in mistaking the restroom for the dining car. Archaeologists digging in Egypt discover a dinner party beneath a sarcophagus.  Walking along a windy beach and being served papers.  Joe sings in a club, is disappointed with the experience and begins criticizing the audience in his songs.  What is death; what if the expression "bought the farm" were literally true? Joe talks about his name against a background of children singing "Me and My Shadow." Mad ramblings: dentures, panicked exclamations, a distressing orthodontist, money and toilet paper, "and if you'd only accept my transplant, then you'd have two livers", "I hate circus clowns because they're indifferent to national emergencies," legal language, paranoid delusions, people are talking about me, a man India takes a vow of silence, preferring the company of mutes and children. Death as hotel paradise.  Death is. . .  Sound gunshot.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
 {{They Drive by Night (David Van Tieghem)}} [Intro]
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 == Shared Material ==
 * [[The Dictator (Part 1)|The Dictator]]
-* [[Iceland (Part 3)]]
+* [[Iceland (Part 2)]]
 * [[I'm Not Crazy]]
 * [[On The Edge]]
+* [[Joe Frank's America]]
+== Footnotes ==