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The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy

The entire Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, read by the author. "A masterpiece of American humor." Los Angeles Times peterleroy.substack.com

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5:39

🎧 767: “To explain . . .”

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2024/07/12

“TO EXPLAIN Terrence, I have to explain the popularity of my weeping and vomiting. Of all the things I did on this stage, in this house, that was the ultimate crowd-pleasing shtick. Weeping and puking. Tears and vomit. C’est la vie.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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4:34

🎧 766: She glanced . . .

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2024/07/10

SHE GLANCED AT HER WATCH and said, “Each of my several cycles of popularity was characterized by a different set of ambitious lovers.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:47

🎧 765: “When I . . .”

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2024/07/09

55“WHEN I STOOD HERE, that first night—in this place, just as you see it—when I finally had the new house to myself—I felt that I had turned a corner.” She turned to me. “You know how it is,” she said. “In the labyrinth of life?” I asked. “Yeah! Take your solo.” “Now and then,” I said, rising from the couch and stalking toward the edge of the stage, holding my hands out, palms down, and rocking on the balls of my feet with each step, rotating my shoulders in a groovy kind of way,

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3:10

🎧 764: When Derek . . .

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2024/07/08

WHEN DEREK and Bud and Bud’s gangs of carpenters and plumbers and electricians were finished, Ariane spent a night prowling her new home like a cat taking possession of a strange place. For a long time, she couldn’t seem to settle into it. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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6:27

🎧 763: Ariane motioned . .

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2024/07/05

Ariane motioned to the young architect to join her in the living room, and there they continued their discussion, while Bud, who remained in the kitchen, continued his discourse on the evolution of the functions of rooms in suburban homes [. . .] Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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6:11

🎧 762: Ariane stood . . .

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2024/07/04

ARIANE stood at the kitchen counter with Duncan Rollo of the Zoning Board, Bud Costa, a Babbington builder, and Derek Rourke, a young architect. “So what I want to do,” she said, indicating with a wave of her arm the interior walls, the walls that hid the bedroom and bathroom from the audience, “is open the whole place up.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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9:22

🎧 761: “Sex,” she said . . .

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2024/07/02

“SEX,” she said. She paused for a beat that she used to shoot me a glance full of comment on the power of that word to get the attention of an audience. “Onstage sex was a kind of guilty pleasure for me.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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4:59

🎧 760: She shook . . .

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2024/07/01

She shook her head, eyes down, with a sadness in the rhythm of the shaking that made me wish I had kept my mouth shut. Some members of the audience, speaking so softly that they were barely audible, began the long, drawn-out chant that one heard more and more often now: “Arrr-eeee-annn, Arrr-eeee-ann.” She immediately held her hands up to silence them. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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7:45

🎧 759: I felt . . .

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2024/06/28

I FELT MYSELF GROWING more and more comfortable with the role of the suave interviewer, so, in that manner, I said, “Naturally, your new popularity—or perhaps I might say notoriety— Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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3:10

🎧 758: The third wave . . .

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2024/06/26

THE THIRD WAVE of reaction and assessment, which peaked in the ninth and tenth years, was characterized by a tone of sneering superiority. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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4:48

🎧 757: When Greg finished . . .

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2024/06/25

WHEN GREG finished reading Donna Merrick’s column he threw the paper down on the kitchen counter and went to the refrigerator for a beer. “What’s the matter?” asked Ariane. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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6:56

🎧 756: During the . . .

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2024/06/24

DURING THE SECOND WAVE, people (and, invisibly, Ariane herself) began to consider questions of the nature of her existence as a person, or as a representation of a person. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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10:42

🎧 755: Here are . . .

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2024/06/21

HERE ARE examples of viewers’ reactions during the first wave of interest in Ariane, which for me represents roughly the first two years of her decade on display. They are, I think, typical of the kind of response that arose from, explored, and exulted in the relationship between audience and work: Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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3:05

🎧 754: In the zoning . . .

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2024/06/20

IN THE ZONING BOARD DEBATES that ensued, Mr. Rollo became a tireless advocate for the “performing” position—that is, the pro-Ariane position, . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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12:34

🎧 753: Duncan Rollo . . .

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2024/06/19

DUNCAN ROLLO, chairman of the Babbington Zoning Board, opened the door at the back of the auditorium, allowed himself only a moment to glance around and size up the situation, then marched right down the main aisle to the edge of Ariane’s living room, where there would have been a wall if she had had any walls. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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2:21

🎧 752: “You were nearly . . .”

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2024/06/18

“YOU WERE NEARLY CLOSED DOWN a few times, I know,” I said. As I spoke, I noted that I sounded like one of the more dignified television interviewers. I don’t mean one of those who discuss the weight-loss secrets of serial killers . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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5:46

🎧 751: Ariane said . . .

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2024/06/17

ARIANE SAID GOOD NIGHT to the audience and pushed aside the curtain that in those early days hid the bedroom. She walked into the bedroom and pulled the curtain closed behind her. She was exhausted and happy to be alone. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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8:28

🎧 750: “What a day . . .”

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2024/06/14

“WHAT A DAY that was!” she said. “What a night that was! Everything clicked. But then, how could everything not click? This play was a life, so anything that happened in it was a success, at least in the sense that anything that happened was exactly what we wanted to include in the performance, even if it wasn’t what we would have chosen to have happen in life. Isn’t that a neat trick? Not a bad way to live.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter

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2:29

🎧 749: “Let me start . . .”

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2024/06/13

“LET ME START this way,” she said. “Let me start out with unpacking, and wondering about whether I’ve made a mistake and all, and then I’ll throw myself on the bed and call out to you, and you’ll come in and persuade me to stay—you beg me to stay, like this, just like this, and I’ll let you talk me into going through with it.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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5:08

🎧 748: “What a thing . . .”

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2024/06/12

“WHAT A THING TO ASK! Be yourself! Over the course of my little lifetime I had put a lot of effort into trying to become someone else. Myself was the last person I wanted to be. There wasn’t anything Denny could have asked me to do that would have been harder. I had no self. There was nothing at the heart of me.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

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