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Interlocutors: Massimiano, Santino, and VeridicoSantino:What, does it seem to you, is a comedy, who was its first author, what is its purpose, is it rendered in verse or in…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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ca. 1565
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You, my dear, will survive me and remember.
How could it be otherwise?
—From a letter
Old people? What can you write about old people?
They barely feel anything!
—From a conversation
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Dina Kalinovskaya
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1980
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O you paragon of glory and grace, listen to the call of Papos and his cry! He is bellowing like a bull, braying at you like a donkey, for you are his cow and his she-ass. His heart is already parched…
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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It’s a great question this question of washing. One never can find anyone who can be satisfied with anybody else’s washing. I knew a man once who never as far as anyone could see ever did any washing…
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Gertrude Stein
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Paris, France
Date:
1911
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Zelig Melamed
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1914
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Hershele:For a long time . . . The first evening that you were with us, on Hanuka . . . you said that . . . that Freydenyu . . . my wife’s niece . . . that . . .Mischief:What could I have said about…
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Jacob Gordin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1900
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[ . . . ] And the Lieutenant-Captain was seriously tired of other people’s passports, of never-ending family names, from Ivanov to Chavchavadze, and of registration.
The barrister has been…
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Andrei Sobol
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1923
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The body of a weary man is primed like an ambulance
Adrenaline charges through his hot blood.
I will go mad if we don’t end this now.
Bizarre how a man so blind with bits of coal
Can strike so…
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David Avidan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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The Painter had a different personality. A tiny Polish Jew, he was famous as a creator of wonderful whimsical animals. He said:
“For my part I wanted to use stained glass. But the architect says we…
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Paul Goodman
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation (Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827