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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
This is almost all of [[Iceland (Part 3)]], with the first segment | |||
(torching unwanted listener submissions) abridged; the segment from | |||
part 2, the time they were going to go to a dinner party but got the | |||
call about Vogel's death, inserted. Oddly, the pickup driver on the | |||
beach at Cape Cod doesn't give Joe a subpoena but Joe has it in his | |||
hand at the end of the segment. | |||
0:00: Joe tells us that listeners send him stories, poems, journals, | |||
that they want him to critique and read on his show. Some send him | |||
tapes for the same purpose. Joe tells us that this is his show, not | |||
theirs. He piles them up, sets them on fire, prays that god receive | |||
this offering. (sounds of fire and fighting it)<ref name=iceland3>originally aired in [[Iceland (Part 3)]]</ref> | |||
6:30: Joe recounts the dinner party at some of his oldest | |||
friends, how late Lila makes them. She's sympathizing with a neighbor | |||
whose husband left her; then, Lila's mother calls, distraught about | |||
her son's arrest for voyeurism in a women's bathroom at the Hilton. | |||
After that, she puts a lot of effort into her makeup, then tries on | |||
different outfits, asking Joe what he thinks. Just after they get out | |||
the door, the phone rings: Professor Vogel has died; she's to come to | |||
the reading of the will. She describes their fieldwork with Bedouin | |||
tribesmen, everyone's passion for the work, his nursing of her after a | |||
scorpion sting.<ref>originally aired in [[Iceland (Part 2)]]</ref> | |||
13:50: Joe delivers a paean to the glories of Iceland.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
15:20: Joe describes the scene at Lila's apartment. She has | |||
all her belongings piled up, trying to decide what to pack for the | |||
trip to Iceland. Joe's exasperated, thinks it's time to leave | |||
already. As usual, they get out to the street, try to hail a cab, | |||
late. They get a gypsy cab (driven by a real gypsy) who asks for an | |||
exorbitant rate. Joe bargains him down, but still high; the cabbie | |||
proves to be an excellent, if not law-abiding driver, down a runway, | |||
to the terminal in time. They're unhappy that they got center seats | |||
instead of the window seats they paid for.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
21:50: 'I came to the rabbi in a state of crisis…' Joe | |||
describes the home of a well-appointed rabbi. When the rabbi appears, | |||
he asks Joe some odd questions, then tells him not to answer, just to | |||
think about them.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
24:40: 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=iceland3 /> | |||
28:00: 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=iceland3 /> | |||
32:20: Party noises, 'In the mood' (Glenn Miller) | |||
33:00: 'One more night' (Can) | |||
33:20: Joe's walking along ashore at Cape Cod at dusk, describes the | |||
sights, smells, and sounds. A pickup drives at him. His favorite | |||
hat, which he lost 3 months ago, skitters along the sand.<ref | |||
name=iceland3 /><ref>In the original, the driver of the pickup gives Joe | |||
a subpoena for back alimony for his ex-wife. He doesn't in this | |||
version, but Joe is still holding the subpoena at the end.</ref> | |||
35:40: '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=iceland3 /> | |||
38:40: Joe says that Jesus walked upon the water in Iceland; | |||
we all may.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
39:20: Oswald, Professor Vogel's assistant, meets them at the | |||
airport. Joe describes Vogel's estate and chalet. Vogel is in a | |||
block of ice, his instructions.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
41:30: The lawyer arrives, reads the will. Lila gets almost | |||
everything.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
42:30: Lila tells Joe she had no idea she meant that much to | |||
him. They have to cancel their return tickets to have enough time to | |||
dispose of his estate.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
43:30: Joe, having nothing to do, walks the tundra.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
44:10: Joe finds Vogel's love letters to Lila all around the | |||
chalet. Joe reads some of the letters, all about how much Lila meant | |||
to him.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
47:30: Joe finds, 'our love making is becoming increasingly | |||
passionate.' despite 'We barely talk. Our relationship seems to | |||
hardly exist.'<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
48:40: Joe says he's feeling lonely and vulnerable, wants a | |||
hug, asks the listener to hug her/his radio, kiss the dial, rub its | |||
back, blow into the speaker grille, tongue the volume control, extend | |||
the antenna and stroke it… smokes a cigarette.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
50:30: Joe dreams that he's in Tahiti with Vogel, dancing | |||
together, tells Joe that he's his son, that all those letters were for | |||
him, not Lila. Vogel's nose bleeds, then his ears and eyes. Joe | |||
finds it funny. The dream ends.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
52:10: Laughter, forced and languid at first, gets a little | |||
more convincing. (I think I hear 2 men and 1 woman.)<ref>originally aired in [[Iceland (Part 1)]]</ref> | |||
55:10: Joe delivers a paean to water.<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
56:20: 'Fire and ice, the handmaidens of civilization, the | |||
linchpins, the infrastructure, the yin and yang, the sun and moon, | |||
unifying principles.'<ref name=iceland3 /> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* [[Iceland (Part 1)]] | |||
* [[Iceland (Part 2)]] | * [[Iceland (Part 2)]] | ||
* [[Iceland (Part 3)]] | * [[Iceland (Part 3)]] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||