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“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let the birds sing, let people go to work: somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn’t stop it. I was going to sleep.” in 1985??

This a rereading of tho novel , I am rereading The New translation by Jay Rubin , not just a new translation , but the recovery of parts of the novel that were cut ,when originally published in translation
I am currently reading this translation in The New Folio Society edition