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ОглавлениеNature …
Why hast thou made us but in halves –
Co-relatives? This makes us slaves …
What Cosmic jest or Anarch blunder
The human integral clove asunder
And shied the fractions through life’s gate?
From ‘After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traced Under an
Image of Amor Threatening’, by Herman Melville
My mother groaned, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt …
From ‘Infant Sorrow’, Songs of Experience, by William Blake
‘Are the twins identical, Peter?’
‘One is, Rabbi, one isn’t.’
Snatches of conversation overheard at a double bris ceremony
My heart and my mind, my bones and flesh and all the organs of my
body are bound together with the cords of the stories I was told.
From The Honey Thief, by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
