[joe-frank-list] 'Pathology'

[rbell at alumni.caltech.edu]

	'Pathology' is all recycled.  The first 16:40 identical to the
beginning of 'White moon', the next segment from 'Just get me out of
here', the ascent of K-2 from 'Mountain Rain', the final 3 segments
from 'Just get me out of here'.

	Joe, a bank teller, turns invisible, dresses in white gauze
and gloves.  The bank fires him.  He stops speaking, becomes incapable
of understanding speech.  He ends up at a Buddhist monastery in Idaho.
A monk thinks his koans should solve Joe's problem, but do nothing for
him.  (originally aired in 'White moon')
	9:50: Joe talks to god about their failing relationship.
(originally aired in 'White moon')
	13:20: Joe counts the tables, people, waitresses, and maitre'd
at a cafe, wants to count the flagstones, imagines the discomfiture of
the other patrons.  (originally aired in 'White moon')
	14:10: Joe's trembling, imagines how nice it would be to have
a seizure.  (originally aired in 'White moon')
	15:10: 'When they landed on the moon, I was in a firefight in
a Buddhist cemetery north of Hue.  Men were walking on the moon, a
very white, bright moon shining down that night, while all hell was
breaking loose around us.  And I was lying there thinking.  "We're
doing what men have done since they first stood upright."  The war
didn't stop that night.'  (originally aired in 'White moon')
	16:40: Joe recalls when he had a breakdown, was committed to a
hospital on a ship.  One fellow collected weather data, claimed he
could predict it, also called himself a fraud.  'The chief
psychologist was completely mad.' feared going to the bathroom alone.
He declared the ship an autonomous nation, tried to annex New Zealand.
Joe was the navigator.  (originally aired in 'Just get me out of
here')
	25:50: Joe recounts his expedition to climb K2.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2) Joe recruits a team of unqualified
people.  They carry the wrong equipment.  They don't prepare.  They
get out of shape.  They forgo maps.  They bring a marching band.  They
take LSD and get drunk.  Many die.  They never climb the mountain but
like to think they did.  They get together annually to remember the
expedition.  (originally aired in 'Mountain rain')
	44:20: Joe talks about the relationship between erectile
tissue and pollen, a conference in Prague, the use of pyribenzamine (a
legitimate antihistamine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripelennamine)
as an aphrodisiac; it also has the side-effect of promoting memory.  A
physician and his assistant, lovers, come dressed as a nose and a
swab, get into a fight; the physician kills the assistant.  He
continues his research in jail.  (originally aired in 'Just get me out
of here')
	50:30: Joe recounts a troubled flight to Lima for an
expedition to dig in Mayan ruins.  (Mayans didn't live in Peru.)
Celia Brown, a beautiful young woman on the expedition, comes to his
room at night, is obsessed with him; she speaks to him in German.  He
takes pyribenzamine, which reminds him of seeing his mother with a
lover as a child, gets sick, faints.  (originally aired in 'Just get
me out of here')
        58:00: Sweet nothings in German.  (originally aired in 'Just
get me out of here')

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

russell bell