Ilu Hotzianu Mimitzrayim...
My solitary Passover has been easier than I thought it would be.
I ordered Japanese food and read Exodus. When Exodus got repetitive, I read more Kushner essays. Then I watched a Harry Potter movie. And called my family. The combined effect of these stimuli is a general awareness of my Jewishness, my dedication to radical progressive change, and my shaky-but-consistent belief that art can somehow accomplish that change.
The funny thing about Exodus is that it's preceded by Genesis. And in the last chapter of Genesis, the Jews are totally welcomed by the Egyptians, and the Pharaoh goes out of his way to accommodate the wishes of Jew Joseph. It's a happy story. The chapter ends. The book ends. Then a new book begins, and suddenly we're screwed! The lesson? DON'T GET COMFORTABLE.
Something just fell in the next room.
Something sounds like some kind of monster.
This, too, feels appropriate.
Ardi is coming by later, to watch some kind of Jewy movie he found.
I'm glad.
It would have been, as they say, enough.
Love
Dan
I ordered Japanese food and read Exodus. When Exodus got repetitive, I read more Kushner essays. Then I watched a Harry Potter movie. And called my family. The combined effect of these stimuli is a general awareness of my Jewishness, my dedication to radical progressive change, and my shaky-but-consistent belief that art can somehow accomplish that change.
The funny thing about Exodus is that it's preceded by Genesis. And in the last chapter of Genesis, the Jews are totally welcomed by the Egyptians, and the Pharaoh goes out of his way to accommodate the wishes of Jew Joseph. It's a happy story. The chapter ends. The book ends. Then a new book begins, and suddenly we're screwed! The lesson? DON'T GET COMFORTABLE.
Something just fell in the next room.
Something sounds like some kind of monster.
This, too, feels appropriate.
Ardi is coming by later, to watch some kind of Jewy movie he found.
I'm glad.
It would have been, as they say, enough.
Love
Dan
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