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<i>Solea</i> (Miles Davis, <i>Sketches of Spain</i>) | <i>Solea</i> (Miles Davis, <i>Sketches of Spain</i>) | ||
1:20: Sound of a typewriter, then Joe's voice narrating a story about 2 people, José (a bullfighter - [[Tim Jerome]]) and Susanna ([[Annalee Jefferies]]?), at the shore, watching the waves crash, 'and to him they (the waves) were like bulls, they kept on coming, one after another, in stubborn and despairing fortitude'. <ref>An homage to how [[Eighty Yard Run, The]] ended?</ref> | 1:20: Sound of a typewriter, then Joe's voice narrating a story about 2 people, José (a bullfighter - [[Tim Jerome]]) and Susanna ([[Annalee Jefferies]]?), at the shore, watching the waves crash, 'and to him they (the waves) were like bulls, they kept on coming, one after another, in stubborn and despairing fortitude'.<ref>An homage to how [[Eighty Yard Run, The]] ended?</ref> | ||
1:50: José and Susanna take up the story themselves. José's mother took him to the shore when he was a child, rubbed them (her children) against the rock to get them clean. She's head over heels in love with him. He tells bullfighting stories. | 1:50: José and Susanna take up the story themselves. José's mother took him to the shore when he was a child, rubbed them (her children) against the rock to get them clean. She's head over heels in love with him. He tells bullfighting stories. | ||
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6:20: July 15 - Joe complains that he can't get the beach scene right, wonders why characters he writes can cause him such frustration, as though they had lives of their own. | 6:20: July 15 - Joe complains that he can't get the beach scene right, wonders why characters he writes can cause him such frustration, as though they had lives of their own. | ||
6:40: Joe wonders, 'When will that book on Dominguín arrive?' <ref> Luis Miguel Dominguín https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel_Dominguín was a famous bullfighter. Thanks to Chris Pirazzi for this reading.</ref> | 6:40: Joe wonders, 'When will that book on Dominguín arrive?'<ref> Luis Miguel Dominguín https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel_Dominguín was a famous bullfighter. Thanks to Chris Pirazzi for this reading.</ref> | ||
7:20: [[Arthur Miller]] remembers when he was a child and first learning to read. His father, also a psycho-anthropologist, gave him <i>Black beauty</i>, which terrified him. A woman ([[Rosemary Foley]], [[Avery Hart]] are the other women in the cast) avers that people write to purge their pain. Another man ([[Lester Nafzger]]?) enters the discussion. <ref>I haven't figured out how many voices are in this segment.</ref> | 7:20: [[Arthur Miller]] remembers when he was a child and first learning to read. His father, also a psycho-anthropologist, gave him <i>Black beauty</i>, which terrified him. A woman ([[Rosemary Foley]], [[Avery Hart]] are the other women in the cast) avers that people write to purge their pain. Another man ([[Lester Nafzger]]?) enters the discussion.<ref>I haven't figured out how many voices are in this segment.</ref> | ||
10:30: Joe narrates José and Susanna's story again, to the sound of his typewriter and <i>Solea</i>. Their car is careening on the coastal road. Driving fast excites José. | 10:30: Joe narrates José and Susanna's story again, to the sound of his typewriter and <i>Solea</i>. Their car is careening on the coastal road. Driving fast excites José. | ||
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29:30: One of the panel (Arthur?) avers that had God wanted man to read he would have given him the ability at birth. Panel discusses reading more. | 29:30: One of the panel (Arthur?) avers that had God wanted man to read he would have given him the ability at birth. Panel discusses reading more. | ||
31:50: April 22, evening - Joe feels imbued with a sense of doom, can't write, tells of Melville's difficulties writing (fictional). <ref>Note the previous date was July 15.</ref> | 31:50: April 22, evening - Joe feels imbued with a sense of doom, can't write, tells of Melville's difficulties writing (fictional).<ref>Note the previous date was July 15.</ref> | ||
33: Joe narrates: José and Susanna are at José's favorite café. | 33: Joe narrates: José and Susanna are at José's favorite café. | ||
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40: A redneck couple argues the relative merits of watching television (his preference) and reading (hers). | 40: A redneck couple argues the relative merits of watching television (his preference) and reading (hers). | ||
44:20: To prove that TV has culture, the guy tunes to a performance by fast pianist Alan Baron. Joe's the host, takes calls, Lester Ainsley (sp? - [[Lester Nafzger]]), another fast pianist calls in. He's angry that Alan Baron won't have a piano-off with him; Baron says Ainsley's a famous pest on the fast piano league. They have an angry argument. <ref>Re-used in [[Emergency Room]]</ref> | 44:20: To prove that TV has culture, the guy tunes to a performance by fast pianist Alan Baron. Joe's the host, takes calls, Lester Ainsley (sp? - [[Lester Nafzger]]), another fast pianist calls in. He's angry that Alan Baron won't have a piano-off with him; Baron says Ainsley's a famous pest on the fast piano league. They have an angry argument.<ref>Re-used in [[Emergency Room]]</ref> | ||
50: A meeting of 'Consciousness-lowering' (CL), most (all?) of the panel. <ref>Re-used in [[Til You're Gone]]</ref> | 50: A meeting of 'Consciousness-lowering' (CL), most (all?) of the panel.<ref>Re-used in [[Til You're Gone]]</ref> | ||
55:50: November 13 - Joe walks along the shore, collecting stones, sees a dead whale; his bathroom is messy. | 55:50: November 13 - Joe walks along the shore, collecting stones, sees a dead whale; his bathroom is messy. | ||