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And he thought about what Charlie Parker told him when he was hanging around New York searching for a celebration of authentic and well-woven social slime.

Yoram Kaniuk. The Last Jew: A Novel (p. 491). Kindle Edition.

The doctor claimed that he refused to put her in the hospital because she wasn't really sick but was hiding from herself.

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In every person hides an image of a first love that may never have been.

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[A part is missing] ... And Jordana left her office and went to the street. The light was dazzling, people who were scared of the heat weren't the shadows she had thought.

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And what do you do in civilian life?

Grave digger, prepare my financial future.

You're trying to be cynical.

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The trial took place before a judge in the district court. Boaz pleaded guilty. After you judged in his favor, Boaz wrote a letter to the judge thanking him, he said he was writing on behalf of Menahem Henkin, may the Lord avenge his blood. And I? I was silent.

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No need, I'm going, why do children die in such Paradises? It's not fair.

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She said: Still sitting in the cafe and wasting time?

Yes, he said.

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You asked how those years passed. They passed. I sat and waited. For what? For nothing.

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Rebecca agreed to describe to him what she felt when she entered the lion's cage. Mr. Klomin looked at the Captain's padded visor, ostentatiously hated the roars of the wild Pioneers, saw his son-in-law standing on the side gazing, and said: They should have begat Rebecca and the Captain, and not vice versa.

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What did you get the medal for? I fought. What did you do before? I wrote stories. Why? I don't know, said Lionel.

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Maybe you're right and I'm not, but your rightness is starting not to interest me, my friend, Ebenezer's rightness ness is more perverse, incomprehensible, but more important to me.

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Anybody who calls his first cemetery etery "Roots" calls the Jewish state that will rise here "Hill of Graves" and that's forbidden. But his words fell on deaf ears and the name remained.

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When they held hands, they felt the guile of the loving couples who had toiled for generations to permeate the two of them with that longing, destruction, and disgrace, the profound and sublime loathing they felt for themselves.

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She broke the glass herself and then said to the rabbi: In exile ile we married the Shekhinah, said my father, my father your uncle, married, in the cellar, a dead nation to restore her to life, and the people said: Behold, hold, here lives a seamstress whose wedding speech is bewitchingly beautiful tiful and she's a virgin and a widow and a divorcee.

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Ebenezer is a small person in Israel, said Ebenezer and shut his eyes to remember who he was, ID number 454322, no papers, only the health service vice and an election stub. The number there like a number on the arm. One number more, that's all.

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I thought: I'm drawn to vengeance, maybe because of Jordana, a vengeance that doesn't suit me.

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...succeeds in doing what great literature should do, which is to give birth to things that haven't yet been born, reveal veal what was invisible, give legitimacy to the absurd and surely our lives are nothing if not completely absurd.

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They looked pale but maybe also full of imaginary gaiety; they imagined they were happy.

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