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Be That As It May: No Fixed Address. Yes, Because It's

This three paragraph document touches on several abstract topics including moral cowardice, Judaism, and war. It provides minimal context or connection between the ideas. The writing has a conversational, abstract tone with references to popular culture like Nell Carter and comparisons to making peanut butter sandwiches.

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Be That As It May: No Fixed Address. Yes, Because It's

This three paragraph document touches on several abstract topics including moral cowardice, Judaism, and war. It provides minimal context or connection between the ideas. The writing has a conversational, abstract tone with references to popular culture like Nell Carter and comparisons to making peanut butter sandwiches.

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A Portfolio of Poems contraptions found on the stairs. No fixed address. Yes, because it's broken and cannot be mended. Schuster, it speaks but not to you. Schuster, this is a tree, this is a house, this is the wind. Thump, thump. He speaks Yiddish but with an Italian accent, or vice versa efsher. What do the stars sayi This I know, they say we're not speaking to you, we never really liked you. They say forget it, we are at bloody war, the welkin is weeping and will keep on weeping. Tom said so, and he's one of yours, whether you like it or not. You do? You think you can handle it? Then here is the score. Not that messiahthis one.

Be That As It May
Norman Finkelstein I was thinking ofthe Borscht Belt joke about the nearsighted Indianhow, if told by the right person in the right auditorium, it would lead to extensive theoretical speculation, a dissertation or two written at some large midwestern institution of higher learning. And you think this comes from elsewhere^ Frankly, yes, because where else could it come from, given what some would Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

A Portfolio of Poems call a style and others a track record? Dont even think about sending it away. Keep it for your own, cherish it, dress it all in white. The level of disorder, ratio of noise to musical truth, continues to increase, but no one is sure if this is a good thing. Still, you've got to love it, especially the flights, three ounces each, when the nine o'clock bird begins to sing. My chutzpadik muse, when I hear the rustle of your travelwear after a long day, I wouldn't exchange my mimetic desire for all the visiting professorships in China. What is extinction, what is escape, compared to this?

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Nothing again nothing.

Gimme a Break!
Benjamin Friediander Moral cowardice is a means to an end, so don't pass judgment until the reviews are in. You may learn something new. For instance, that Nell Carter is Jewish. I want to be a credit to her amazing race, but not if it means coming in last. Like Paul, some bottom rung avatar pitching Christ's ideas to the workshop. I mean the Iraq Study Group. And stop confusing Jews with "Orientals." We used to be, and that's cool. But now that the peanut butter is out of the jar, we may as well make a sandwich and eat it, cutting off "the crust" to suit our taste. Save your tears for the jelly: nobody really cares until the sandwich bags start piling up, and every day becomes Vol. 27, No. 3 2009

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