Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Amos Oz

Amos Oz

A co-worker friend in Michigan in the sixties, Joyce Grey, a reed-thin red-head, charmed me when she expressed that she'd been "low sick". I'd not heard the phrase before. That's what I've been the last 3 days ... sore throat, congestion, no pep ... low sick. But I was lucky: a few days earlier I'd spotted a new book by Israeli Amos Oz in the Wellfleet Library. Scenes from Village Life is 182 pages of perfection, and it made yesterday immensely more worth living through.


Oz's autobiography A Tale of Love and Darkness, which I read a few years back, is, along with Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt, Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, and Edward Said's Out of Place, (all autobiographies) among my all-time favorite books.


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  1. JoanMarch 22, 2012 at 3:20 AM

    OK...G, enough of this low sick business...get thee well!!!

    The never-knowing-what-you'll-post joy of opening the page and there...a new one!

    Amos Oz..new to me...after seeking some quotes...this:

    A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

    When a side or a person really truly lets go of the hatred/anger/resentment (for whatever reason) the battle ends...

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