...Have heard this and very much enjoyed it. I like the part where the sailor is in the infirmry and the ladies are scrubbing the oil off of him and they don't realize that he's black and they've never seen a black person before so they almost take his hide off before he makes and explanation.
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...Have heard this and very much enjoyed it. I like the part where the sailor is in the infirmry and the ladies are scrubbing the oil off of him and they don't realize that he's black and they've never seen a black person before so they almost take his hide off before he makes and explanation. <Gosh, is that a spoiler?>
The piece has a lot of breadth -- humor, horror, tragedy, salvation....
Oh, wow! Thinking of it from that perspective makes it even that much more meaningful! You are right, though; it has all the makings of a mythological hero's journey. That is fabulous!
I didn't know they did reruns on NPR, but I heard it yesterday and I'm also almost positive I heard it before that (a year or so ago). Good story, but then they do a lot of great "articles" --there was one on Monday, where these two hitchhiker/musicians get picked up by a guy who liked to drive really fast.
Hey CC -- it's a good thing to be back on an LJ site! I've missed it this summer...
Hey -- where's the gnarly post you told me about this morning? Check your screening mechanism -- just because I haven't read LJ in months, don't think I don't expect to be kept fully in the loop on my whim!!!
I bet you weren't logged in. It's a friends only post, so you have to be logged in to see it. As a matter of fact, these days, most of my posts are friends only. Log in, chica!
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The piece has a lot of breadth -- humor, horror, tragedy, salvation....
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I heard it on This American Life last winter. Stuff like this makes me want to grab a Nagra tape recorder and disappear.
Yes, disappear. Disappearing is sometimes the best method for finding things that you don't realize are there.
Back to the story -- it really says a lot about people, in all too many ways...
Thanks, Cate.
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Hey -- where's the gnarly post you told me about this morning? Check your screening mechanism -- just because I haven't read LJ in months, don't think I don't expect to be kept fully in the loop on my whim!!!
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