[joe-frank-list] 'God only knows'

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Mon Apr 26 03:55:03 PDT 2021


	Joe gives his account of the story of Joseph, father of Jesus:
Mary is bright and witty while Joseph is hesitant and withdrawn; he
feels that Mary betrayed him with God.  He becomes a drunk and a
tramp.
	Joseph resents Jesus's success, suspects his 'miracles' are
tricks, is secretly happy at the crucifixion. (re-used in 'Holy land'
and 'Bible stories')
	11:20: Joe tells us that God was following the example of
previous gods, cites Zeus's dalliances.
	12:40: Joe's mother, Frederica Frank (born Friederike
Passweg), tells the story of her unhappy marriage at age 18 to a
42-year-old man (Meyer Langerman, born Meier Langermann) who divorced
his first wife to marry her.  He was wealthy while her father was a
failure in business.  She was unhappy in her family, disappointed that
the boy she wanted to marry wouldn't marry her; she wanted to get out
of the house.  The rest of the family was happy because her husband's
wealth would save the family's fortunes.  (He did get her, her mother,
brother, sister, and their families out before the war.  Her brother
took over the business when Mr Langerman died young, only 56, in
1943.)  She unconsciously fought off his unappealing advances, got
sick skiing.  (Joe, their only child, was born 9 years later.)
(re-used in 'Higher learning')
http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Meier_Langermann for more on Joe's
father.
	30:10: Joe tells of driving in Midwest; he stops at motel,
sleeps, gets up and leaves, thinking it's sunrise, but it's sunset, so
he drives through the night.  Avoiding a semi in his lane Joe drives
off the road into a ditch, upside-down.  He walks to a bar, chats up a
woman who misses her 7th-grade boyfriend, talks about how much she
likes bars.
	36:20: Joe tells Adam & Eve's story from Adam's point-of-view
(re-used in 'Holy land' and 'Bible stories')
	47:30: Joe tells last night's dream: a machine-gun nest in the
balcony of an apartment building fires into a restaurant; no one seems
to mind being shot.
	49:00: Joe's next dream: beautiful woman with long scarf
riding in Tuscany in an expensive sports car with handsome Joe.
	49:30: Joe reads a medical journal, realizes carbon monoxide
and Parmesan cheese is the solution to drought in Africa - so he rides
to Mexico City with 1-armed Japanese woman driver.  They drive into a
tortilla factory, blowing it up.
	51: Joe asks us who we hang out with, asks if it's motorcycle
guys or academics.
	51:40: Joe asks children's questions: where does the rain come
from?  why does a flower grow?  how long is it until Christmas?...

http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=God_Only_Knows


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