II
Off the corner of Allenby and Ben Yehudah in Tel Aviv..... Joe the Turk, a livery driver, was thinking out loud........
His own plans for a meeting of the minds with his Sabra, a stewardess off El Al, their hub at Jaffa, on the Mediterranean
No Face book or Tweeter aficionados into the globe’s consciousness..... “I wish I were you” website....
The El Al stewardess reading hard copy in the guise of a wish fulfillment as he viewed her in his rear mirror....his twin sou to be....
III
Caroming in and out of traffic, the cab heading toward their Jaffa digs.
“Read it to me, Susanne,” his concentration into sackng his bachelorhood and marketable independence.... embracing a new role on our minor planet.
IV
Tapping into the divine presence was hardly a 21st century myth but a calculated merging of two souls. .....nothing abstract about those convoluted brain waves swishing thru the ancient Jaffa port for lifelines to the estranged and destitute: bar flies everywhere who had given up on themselves
A chemistry that transcends the land of Israel Gaza the Palestinians.......way beyond observing dietary laws.... reaching out for a minyan(“10th man”) and davening amidst a Kind David odyssey.
V
Harper’s magazine 1899 September read Suzanne....
“If the statistics are right, the Jew constitutes but one per cent of the human race .It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the milky way.
He ought hardly be heard of but he is heard of: has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, yet his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.
His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature science art music finance, medicine, and abstract learning is also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
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He has made a marvelous fight in this world..... in all the ages: and he has done it with his hands tied behind him He could be vain of himself and be excused for it.
The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Persians filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded dream-stuff and passed away: the Greek and Romans followed and made a vast noise and they are gone: other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out and they sit in twilight now or have vanished.
VII
The Jew saw them all...beat them all, and is now what he has always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his part or slowing of his energies nor dulling of his alert and aggressive mind
All things are mortal bu the Jew. all other forces pass. He remains.
What is the secret of his immortality? asks Samuel Clemnts aka Mark Twain.”
The dreamy Big Apple...August 4 2010 ....Ay Rod smashing his 600th home run at Yankee Stadium, the 7th player in the game’s century old field of dreams The youngest dream catcher ever at 35.......17 years chasing his
