31 October 2011

Insults And Curses Week

"'May your skull be dark!' the rabbi intoned in short frenzied yelps, 'and your eyes be dark and your fate be of such dearth and darkness that you will call a poppy-seed the sun and a carroway the moon. Get up! Away! Or I'll empty my bitter heart upon you!'"

~Henry Roth, Call It Sleep, Rabbi Yidel

A fearsome threat indeed.

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