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Finished on November 5 (3:30am)

November 4, 2am: having finished the museum of unconditional surrender, back to this novella.

“He knocked on the door of his house.”

Sabbath

For Iphrat, Palestine was nothing more than a stage set adapted from an old legend and still decorated in the manner of the colorful scenes pictured in Christian religious books designed to be used by children in Europe. Of course, he didn’t fully believe that the land was only a desert rediscovered by the Jewish Agency after two thousand years, but that wasn’t what mattered most to him then.