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 == Synopsis ==
+Joe tells of when he was a child, went to the beach with his mother.
+They forgot towels so she bought a newspaper to use as one.  A
+policeman cited her for littering.  She did something to get him to
+tear up the ticket.
+:10: Billy Friedman and Joe, when they were 14, jumped over an air
+shaft about 10 stories up, their favorite sport.  One day they see a
+couple making love through an open window.  Joe goes to get a broom
+and mirror so they can watch more easily.  While fetching the broom
+Joe takes a dump; it gets dark and cold suddenly, and a strong wind
+tries to suck Joe off the toilet.  He has to cling to the seat and
+push against the windowsill to hold on.  When he gets back to the air
+shaft, Billy's dead at its bottom.
+:00: A Russian immigrant tells of when he was 16, wants to go to JFK
+High<ref>in Riverside, NYC</ref> to be with Karen.  But he has no
+English.  He takes a course at Yeshiva<ref>because he's Jewish</ref>,
+but it's mostly Jewish history and Hebrew.  Further, since all the
+students are Russian, therefore speak in Russian outside of class, he
+doesn't learn English.  An administrator tries to bribe him to get
+circumcised with a $30 Panasonic tape recorder.  He demurs.
+:10: A fellow who's having a hard time making it as a performer,
+looking for something to do, takes a job selling religious supplies to
+priests.  It's a terrible job, cold-calling priests on straight
+commissions.  One callee shows an interest in a Burning Bush, a $3,500
+chalice, for which his commission would be about $900, so the guy
+rushes over.<ref>I can't find any information on this chalice.</ref>
+The priest is looking for a pickup.  In a struggle over a $5-bill the
+priest shoves in his shirt pocket, that he doesn't want, he drops the
+chalice.  He can't afford to pay to fix it.  The priest insists on
+paying in installments, which the guy has to pick up, which seem like
+creepy dates to him.
+:20: Joe recounts his breakup with Darlene, the awful things they
+did to each other.  Joe imagines dismembering Darlene, making
+ornaments from her body parts.
+:20: Joe lists people who need love.
+:50: Joe lists analogies for love, how necessary and irreplaceable
+it is.  He addresses Darlene, how much he misses her.
+:00: The Russian guy recalls living in Boston, that there are
+successful Russians and wasters.  The wildest guy is a weaver who
+drinks and drugs, dances on tables, whacks his large penis on
+tables&hellip; A dealer gives him an advance.  He weaves rugs and
+tapestries for a year, has a show, makes a lot of money, buys a new
+car, the preserving of which makes him dull with responsibility.  An
+accident frees him.  Now me lives in Alaska, married, with children,
+hunts mountain goats.
+:20: A guy explains how he got into trouble.  He couldn't get an
+honest job so kept on committing crimes.
+:30: Joe recounts walking along the ocean, coming upon an orchestra,
+dressed-up people dancing, waiters, champagne.  A helicopter lands,
+lets out a man in top hat and tails who comes to the microphone,
+explodes, killing everyone but Joe.  Joe returns to his hotel, pours a
+shot of scotch, pours it out into the pool.
+:40: Joe recalls Socrates's death.<ref>wrongly</ref>
+:20: Joe thinks about finding eternity.
+:00: Joe recalls his father being killed in a factory accident when
+he was 5, reduced to paste.
+:50: Joe recalls his piano lesson when he was 10.  He was a poor
+student; the teacher struck him when he made a mistake.  He developed
+migraines as a result.  Years later he started therapy with a
+psychiatrist.  She and Joe fell in love, made a suicide pact, which
+she honored but Joe did not.
+:30: Joe recounts when he was a cabbie in Manhattan, the couple he
+drove to Atlantic City and back.
+:00: Joe recalls meeting Sol at Lutece.
+:20: Joe recounts bursting into Bludstein's office; Bludstein was
+having an affair with Darlene.  Bludstein pisses out the window.
+<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">
 Narrator and mother on the beach. Peeping at a naked woman, friend falls to his death.  Man's story of coming to USA as a boy and wanting a girl but winds up learning about being Jewish.  Prison song. Struggling performer meets with a priest becomes a salesman for priest's materials ends in a strange relationship.  Narrator recalls losing a girlfriend like an amputation.  "Needs Love" diatribe. Russian immigrant describes person who lost his joy once he became successful.  Song.  A guy describes being in and out of prison for 18 years.  Narrator and an lavish party where a man explodes.  Narrator describes his father killed in a grinder when he was five, piano lessons when ten, therapist who dies. Driving a cab for foreign, arguing couple.  Contemplations of purpose and success.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
 {{Angel Dust (DJ Cam)}} [Intro]
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+Joe re-uses 25 minutes of this episode in [[Love Prisoner]].
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]