SKEPTIC, or
Beware of…
Jews Telling Stories
“Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday.”
— Bernard Holland, C12, N.Y. Times, 5/20/96
From my entry of Monday, June 2, 2003:
William Holden and Martha Scott
in “Our Town,” 1940
Holden Scott
From a website titled Child of a Voice:
“The Talmud says, even in a time when there is no more prophecy there can still be the Daughter of a Voice.
The Tosefot explain: this is like the sound the echo of a hammer makes when it strikes something, and the sound echoes back from mountains. Not the Voice, but a daughter, a child of it.
Not the sound but the echo of a sound. Not the prophecy from God in its purest way, but in a less pure way.
Now because of our sins there is no more prophecy but in a time when there is no prophecy there can be Daughter of a Voice.”
Copyright Abraham Mezrich 2003
From a July 1999 review of a novel:
“The good news is that this is perhaps Ben Mezrich’s finest thriller. The irony is that he used a pen name on it.”
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The From an interview “Mezrich, the author of several critically acclaimed thrillers, came to Boston from Princeton, New Jersey, by way of Harvard University, where he graduated – magna cum laude, mind you – in 1991…. In his Boston apartment…. prominently exhibited was a paperback biography of local boy made good Matt Damon.” |
