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The Varieties of Jewish Experience
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ISBN10: 1959984055
ISBN13: 9781959984054
Publisher: Fomite
Published: Mar 3 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781959984054
Publisher: Fomite
Published: Mar 3 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Allen Ginsberg, while in the New York State Psychiatric Institute, met Carl Solomon. Their first exchange: Solomon: Who are you? Ginsberg: I'm Myshkin. Solomon: I'm Kirilov. From that moment their friendship started. Myshkin is the idiot in Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot (he ends his life in a Swiss asylum) while Kirilov is one of the possessed characters in Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed.
Sometimes diverse cultures meet. The heroic samurai Benkei, according to Japanese legend, killed a giant carp which had swallowed his mother when she fell into a waterfall. It is not recorded if Benkei lost his taste for gefilte fish or sushi. The Japanese legendary monster, the Nu, was slain by a samurai no less brave than Benkei. Benkei, disappointedly, is apparently not Japanese affectionate for Benjamin. A Yiddish version would have substituted mother-in-law for mother and worked in the Yiddish for Adam was fortunate - he didn't have a mother-in-law.The ultimate Nu? Gertrude Stein, dying, asked What is the question?
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