The Washington Post, November 8th, 1992
MY COLLEAGUE ED AND I were talking, about life or luck or fate or some such thing and the apprehension we both feel that, when things are going really well, they will soon go really bad. Ed says this fear of his is characteristic of Catholics, to which I say, nonsense, it is the emotional essence of Judaism, and then, as if rethinking, he tells a folk tale from Yemen, which is certainly not a Catholic or Jewish country: A poor man loves (from afar) the beautiful daughter of a rich man. One day, she is out walking when a hailstorm drives her into the poor man's home for shelter. She asks if she...
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