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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Kaddish
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:03:48 -0400 (EDT)
Kaddish "The precision of the eschatological mind is a measure of its misery. The more you suffer, the more vividly you imagine the end of your suffering. But there is another reason for all these ultimate details. It is that there is no more evidence for a general promise than for a particular promise. The notion that the kaddish freezes hell for an hour and a half is not more ridiculous than the notion that the kaddish freezes hell for an hour, or the notion that there is a hell and the kaddish will affect it. These are all undisciplined ideas. So why not picture happiness in its particulars?" "Go ahead, deny the reality of the world. You will still lie awake at night." (from Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish) http://www.alansondheim.org/kaddish.mov