Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
FICTION: A Good School, Richard Yates ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon · Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez · Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer · The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi · The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke · The World According to Garp, John Irving
Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...
...Isaac, the wrinkles stack on my face like the inches I used to measure the years by, and there is no more game in provoking your cornered authority. You strain toward the desert shadows, seeing something I don't see. Maybe your god speaking to you. Drawn not by love, I settle beside you, my breath light so I won't disturb you. With my presence you rage like a young falcon and beseech your god that my death be slow...