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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Larry tells Joe about his fantasy life when he eats: he imagines being
an FBI investigator in the case of
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit] and the
disappearance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]
and another in which he imagines he's a smart detective who plays
dumb, hoping that will place the suspect off-guard.
4:10: Jack Kornfield describes
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow Abraham Maslow]'s
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs hierarchy of human needs]. 
It placed spirituality at the top; Kornfield disagrees, says it's more
important.
6:00: Zachary tells Joe about a security guard running him and his
buddy off from drinking in a building hallway.
6:40: Larry tells Joe he doesn't care about Zachary's drinking.
7:30: Joe tells Larry that Zachary is copying Larry's behavior, that
Zachary is angry with Larry because of Larry's behavior.  Larry
defends his drinking.
12:50: Larry quotes
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Savage_Landor Walter Savage Landor]'s
[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44562/dying-speech-of-an-old-philosopher 'Dying Speech ofan Old Philosopher']:
<blockquote>
<pre>
'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks; and I am ready to depart.'
</pre>
</blockquote>
except Larry says 'It stinks', and means it.<ref>Did he misremember?
Freudianly slip?  Do it deliberately?</ref>
15:10: Larry recurs to his performance in <i>Comedy of errors</i> in
'Shakespeare in the park' (1975).  Joe says Larry failed because of
his drinking and drug use.  Larry disputes this.
16:50: Joe takes a brief call from Kristine McKenna on call-waiting,
makes an appointment.
17:20: Kornfield remembers doing walking meditation in the dark in the
forest when he was at the monastery in southeast Asia, the
loving-kindness meditation, blessing all beings; he explains why the
Buddha invented it.
21:30: Kristine McKenna tells Joe about taking him to the emergency
department.  After delaying treatment with the usual paperwork they
eventually figured out he was bleeding in the stomach, had lost 2
pints.  Joe disagrees with her description of his behavior.  Joe
thought he might have been dying, couldn't think of anyone close to
call.  He noticed how he felt close to the nurses who took care of
him, his roommate Roy.  But on the ride home he was dismayed that his
angry habits returned.
32:30: Kornfield says that what matters at the end of life is whether
we loved well.
33:50: Larry tells Joe he got in trouble because he left an e-mail to
Marilyn<ref>the woman he had an affair with in [[Karma (Part 4)]],
called in [[The Box]].</ref> open on his computer - Jolly saw it,
suggested he move to California and live with her.
37:20: David Rapkin tells Joe imagining an alternative life sailing
alone around the world, waxes poetic.
40:00: Larry and Joe argue about whether Larry is responsible for his
failure.
49:40: Kornfield talks about the blessing of mercy.
51:30: Sharon, on the phone with Joe, tells him about this person who
showed up at her house, wanting to use the bathroom - it's Larry.  She
let him in and he wants to stay.  She won't let him stay.<ref>When Joe
appeared on a fund-raiser on WFMU he said they hired an actress to
play this, that it's fictional.</ref>
53:30: Kornfield tells about his good friend
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner  Michael Harner, an exponent of shamanic practice]
communing with a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine  bristlecone pine],
the world's oldest living things, older than 4,000 years, what he
learns from it - then quotes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke], 'Being alive means not numbering
or counting but ripening like a tree which doesn't force its sap and
stands in the storms of spring not afraid that summer may not come -
it does come, it always comes.' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet 'Letters to a Young Poet'])
<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">
*Larry - fantasies while he's eating: being a cop, confronting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit].  
*Larry - fantasies while he's eating: being a cop, confronting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Condit Gary Condit].  
*Kornfield - reordering Maslow's hierarchy and a story of a destitute man in India who wants to talk about religion.  
*Kornfield - reordering Maslow's hierarchy and a story of a destitute man in India who wants to talk about religion.  
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*Woman - She lets a street guy use her bathroom, he won't leave - it's Larry!<ref>In a call-in to WFMU Joe says this segment was fictional, that they had to hire an actor to play the woman - apparently Sharon O'Connell</ref>   
*Woman - She lets a street guy use her bathroom, he won't leave - it's Larry!<ref>In a call-in to WFMU Joe says this segment was fictional, that they had to hire an actor to play the woman - apparently Sharon O'Connell</ref>   
*Kornfield - reads from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet ''Letters to a Young Poet'']: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come."
*Kornfield - reads from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Rilke]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet ''Letters to a Young Poet'']: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come."
 
</div></div>
== Music ==  
== Music ==  
{{Spiritual Healing (Toots Hibbert)}} [4:02]
{{Spiritual Healing (Toots Hibbert)}} [4:02]
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== Additional credits ==
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[David Rapkin]], Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher [[Jack Kornfield]], and Joe Frank. Production: [[Ray Guarna]]. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson. Special thanks to Cally Rose."
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[David Rapkin]], Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher [[Jack Kornfield]], and Joe Frank. Production: [[Ray Guarna]]. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson. Special thanks to Cally Rose."<ref>The credits on joefrank.com don't mention Sharon O'Connell; I figure
she has to be the actress he hired for the penultimate segment.</ref>
 
==Commentary==
The bristlecone pines are wonderful.  You can see them in the
White Mountains of California.


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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