Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Essick described the performance as "mediocre," coming off a big win against Princeton Saturday. Before the race, Essick predicted the team would go all the way this season and capture the Ivy League crown...
...helps to remember this story in reading A Crown of Feathers, because the story makes plainer the pain Singer expresses in the theme that runs through A Crown of Feather's stories: people's inability to know the truth, or even to know that there is any truth that would make what they suffer meaningful. Again and again in these stories--like almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens...
...Crown of Feathers," the best story in the book, a beautiful and haunting story, a girl remorseful because she didn't marry her grandfather's choice finds a crown with a miraculous feathery cross in her pillow, and becomes a Christian and then the squiress Maria Malkowska. Miserable with her unfaithful husband, she conjures up the Devil, who tells her that it was he who braided the feathers, that "the truth is that there is no truth...
...grandfather wanted her to marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and finds in a crown of feathers God's feathery Hebrew name...
...this crown any different from the first? "No matter how much the townspeople pondered and how many explanations they tried to find, they never discovered the truth. Because if there is such a thing as truth it is as intricate and hidden as a crown of feathers." It seems as though Akhsa would have done as well to stick with "the castigating words of the prophets, who never mentioned the Kingdom of Heaven or the resurrection of the dead. All they promised was a good harvest for good deeds and starvation and plague for bad ones...