He’s framed a ticket to the World Series game Sandy Koufax did not pitch and a sheet of Freud’s stationery on which the great man did not write. In the second of a two-part episode recorded at JCC Manhattan, Jonathan Safran Foer describes the pleasures of the non-event and the joys of possessing archaeological relics of what did not occur. Photo courtesy Koon & Jcc Manhattan.

•  THING: a framed ticket
•  RANDY’S PERSON: Shirley Hazzard
•  MUSIC: The Bunkhouse Boys