Category: Commentary
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The Skinny on Sojourner
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After writing a book of short stories and a Holocaust fiction, what I write now weighs on me. It reminds me of that writer’s cliche of having to come up to the parity of the first published book; the second novel, I suppose, is a killer. The irony about Sojourner…
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Here I Stand, Martin Luther in Defense of his Theses.
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I admire that short sentence although I do not admire Luther who was an anti-Semite. Some of his essays about Jews are vitriolic. Unwilling to convert to Protestantism, Luther tagged them as “this insufferable devilish burden.” Read his “The Jews and Their Lies” (1543) and his “suggestions” of how to deal…
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Non-Maudlin Memories
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Each one of us is a repository. Like flypaper, time and its detritus clings to us, often unknown except at a subliminal level. Allow me to troll the lake of my mind and give evidence of that gone except in mind. I recall adults telling us “Hey, kids get off my…
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What Is It To Work On One’s Self
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In the last 7 to 10 days I have been beset by yahoos, that Swiftian nomenclature for libidinous creatures, low in intellect, high in passion, applying no rationality to their lives. it was Theodore Dreiser who said that out of a thousand human beings nine hundred and ninety nine are…