Journey to the End of the Millennium
A. B. Yehoshua
1998
From the corner of his eye, Rabbi Elbaz now observed the anxiety in Ben Attar’s face receding somewhat, and a short row of white teeth gleaming in the smile of a merchant who finally sees the hope of securing some return for his outlay. But was Ben Attar nothing more than a merchant? The rabbi suddenly put this fresh question to himself, and on the…
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I run on the bridge
and the children follow
Yonatan
Yonatan they call
a little blood
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