11dbbl every day for 30 {or 60} years a man drove
A WHEELBARROW FULL OF SAND OVER THE TIJUANA BORDER CROSSING. THE CUSTOMS INSPECTOR DUG THROUGH THE SAND EACH MORNING BUT COULD NOT DISCOVER ANY CONTRABAND. HE REMAINED, OF COURSE, CONVINCED THAT HE WAS DEALING WITH A SMUGGLER. ON THE DAY OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE SERVICE, HE ASKED THE SMUGGLER TO REVEAL WHAT IT WAS THAT HE WAS SMUGGLING AND HOW HE HAD BEEN DOING SO. "WHEELBARROWS; I'VE BEEN SMUGGLING WHEELBARROWS, OF COURSE!"
This humorous anecdote functions also for me
on several levels at once. First of all, DB will insist that the borders between Christianity and Judaism
are as constructed & imposed, as artificial & political as any of the borders on earth. Danny proposes in his books
that just as the border between Mexico and the United States of North America is a border that was imposed by strong people
on weaker people, so too is the border
between Christianity & Judaism.
Rather than a natural sounding "parting of the ways,"
such as we usually hear about with respect to these two "religions," here & now
I will suggest an imposed PARTITIONING of what once was a territory without border lines,
much as India & Pakistan, & Palestine & Israel were artificially partitioned by colonial power. A wonderful simile
of Jacques Derrida's based on such a partitioning may help us develop
the power of this metaphor here.
JD wrote:
"LIKE CZECHOSLOVAKIA & POLAND [speech & writing]
resemble each other, regard each other; separated nonetheless by a frontier all the more mysterious ...
BECAUSE IT IS ABSTRACT, LEGAL, IDEAL!" We would not be wrong, I think, in appropriating this figure for another figure
& applying all of these terms to the imagined frontier between Judaism & Christianity.
For Mòr 'my whole life' has been "dominated by socalled
military rules", "occupations &
uniformed officials"!
Take
f.i./"scifi"
Starcamp Erica @ '42,
Wednesday, December 13th @ '44,
Mothersday/Sunday, May 13th @ '45,
Camp Vledder @ '65/'66, all over Israel @
January/May '67, Petra @ June '67 & of course every moment
that followed 'since than'; fascists, nazis, 'violent politional actions',
world wars & civil wars, rebellions, struggles & fights as described @ myDiary
in the past ten years?! As far as I read Frederic Prokosch, Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
Uri Davis, Daniel Boyarin and of course many other artists, writers ànd poets,
ALL of this concerns OUR MUTUAL PAST, SHARED PRESENT & 'near future':
hence the stories of an Esther &
a Mordechai, YESHUA haNatsri,
Shaul/Paul of Tarsus
& 'others'
...
This humorous anecdote functions also for me
on several levels at once. First of all, DB will insist that the borders between Christianity and Judaism
are as constructed & imposed, as artificial & political as any of the borders on earth. Danny proposes in his books
that just as the border between Mexico and the United States of North America is a border that was imposed by strong people
on weaker people, so too is the border
between Christianity & Judaism.
Rather than a natural sounding "parting of the ways,"
such as we usually hear about with respect to these two "religions," here & now
I will suggest an imposed PARTITIONING of what once was a territory without border lines,
much as India & Pakistan, & Palestine & Israel were artificially partitioned by colonial power. A wonderful simile
of Jacques Derrida's based on such a partitioning may help us develop
the power of this metaphor here.
JD wrote:
"LIKE CZECHOSLOVAKIA & POLAND [speech & writing]
resemble each other, regard each other; separated nonetheless by a frontier all the more mysterious ...
BECAUSE IT IS ABSTRACT, LEGAL, IDEAL!" We would not be wrong, I think, in appropriating this figure for another figure
& applying all of these terms to the imagined frontier between Judaism & Christianity.
For Mòr 'my whole life' has been "dominated by socalled
military rules", "occupations &
uniformed officials"!
Take
f.i./"scifi"
Starcamp Erica @ '42,
Wednesday, December 13th @ '44,
Mothersday/Sunday, May 13th @ '45,
Camp Vledder @ '65/'66, all over Israel @
January/May '67, Petra @ June '67 & of course every moment
that followed 'since than'; fascists, nazis, 'violent politional actions',
world wars & civil wars, rebellions, struggles & fights as described @ myDiary
in the past ten years?! As far as I read Frederic Prokosch, Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
Uri Davis, Daniel Boyarin and of course many other artists, writers ànd poets,
ALL of this concerns OUR MUTUAL PAST, SHARED PRESENT & 'near future':
hence the stories of an Esther &
a Mordechai, YESHUA haNatsri,
Shaul/Paul of Tarsus
& 'others'
...
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