[joe-frank-list] notes on 'The angina dialogues'

[rbell at alumni.caltech.edu]

	At 12:50 Larry tells a joke about a great rabbi in old New
York who comforted a Christian woman whom Christian clergy wouldn't
because she did it doggie-style with her boy friend.  The punchline is
bleeped.  A Redditor turned up a source, Kenneth Irby's poem
'Bandelier for J. & R. L.': 

	'and the beautiful punch line of Ron's Joke,
	"My child, what do the goyim
	know about fancy fucking?"' 

from 'The Intent On: Collected Poems, 1962-2006'.  This portion of the
poem has nothing to do with the rest of the poem - at least literally.
One can read it on Google for Books.
	The Redditor claimed to have read the joke in a collection of
Borscht Belt jokes but didn't remember a title.
	Note the odd non-Yiddishism: using 'about' instead of 'from' -
Larry gets it right.

	At 32:20 Jack Kornfield recites a poem from Rilke.  It's
'Sometimes a man stands up during supper' by Rainer Maria Rilke,
translated by Robert Bly, published in 'The rag and bone shop of the
heart: poems for men.' Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade,
(eds.)  (1993)
	A few websites offer analyses that make no sense to me - an
admitted philistine.

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

russell bell