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DUANE

(PHONE RINGS, 3X, PICKUP)

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Hello.

GK: Hi Dad. It's me. Duane. Just called to wish you

happy Father's Day.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Oh. Right----

GK: It's Sunday.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Okay. Good.

GK: So. Happy Father's Day.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Okay. So what you

up to then?

GK: Not much.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Yeah.

GK: I just called to say hello.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Well, appreciate you

thinking of me.

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GK: So what are you doing for Father's Day?

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Not much. Just the

usual.

GK: Is Mom there?

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Yeah. You want to

talk to her?

GK: No.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Okay. She's gonna

know you called though......

GK: How's she going to know that?

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): I donno. But she will.

And then she'll chew me out for not handing the phone to

her.

GK: Well, why can't just you and I talk?

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Okay. Talk about

what?

GK: Life.

TR: Okay, you go first.

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GK: Are you happy?

TR: Say---- lemme ask you a question: you got a minute?

GK: Yeah.

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): I don't want to take

you away from anything----

GK: It's fine.

TR: I was just wondering----- well, never mind. I can look

it up.

GK: What were you going to ask?

TR: It's okay. I can figure it out. No problem.

GK: Just ask what you were going to ask me.

TR: It's nothing.

GK: Well, it's not nothing if you wanted to ask about it.

What is it?

TR (MIDWESTERN, ON PHONE): Do you think silence

is the path to enlightenment?

(A BEAT)

GK: Are you all right?

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TR: Yeah.

GK: What are you talking about?

TR: Silence.

GK: What about it?

TR: These Zen monks I know call it "Enjitsu". Or

"Joyfully Genuine." Something like that.

GK: Where did you get this?

TR: From my teacher. Soijiro Matsumoto.

GK: When did you start studying Buddhism, Dad?

TR: Oh. About thirty years ago.

GK: Why didn't you tell us?

TR: You didn't ask.

GK: You practice Zen?

TR: Round the house, yeah. Anyway, the fish jumps once

in the moon and the moon does not blink.

GK: What does that mean?

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TR: Think about it.

GK: Okay. I will. Bye Dad. Happy Father's Day.

TR: Yeah. Bye now.

GK: Bye now.

(MUSIC OUT)