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...leaves his village and walks there, and another about a simple tailor who becomes a great biblical scholar in only twelve months' time. And Eunuch tells of a rabbi so obsessed with Yom Kippur that he decides to celebrate it every day of the year. This is the strangest of all desires in Passions, most of which are earthy--the desire that is finally closest to being Bashevis Singer's one abiding passion. For as Meyer Eunuch says, "Everything can become a passion, even serving...
...strangest thing about the epistolory method is the way Joyce shifts from the guilt-ridden accuser of betrayal to the brute animal, form addressing his letters, "My darling little convent girl," to "My sweet naughty little fuckbird." The letters are not all too significant, although Joyce does make at least one rather bold assertion: That he could sniff out his wife's gases in a roomful of women emitting similarly odiferous noises...
...strangest of all, some of the committee's documents--financial records and transcripts of interviews--were stolen three times in late September No one seems to know who the thieves were or why they wanted what the committee had, but they apparently were Divinity School-connected people...
...know?" I started to say, and he smiled really bright, and I had the strangest feeling that he knew my thoughts...
...strangest aspect of the dollar's slump is that it continues despite wide agreement among fiscal experts that the greenback is now drastically undervalued. According to the West German Statistical Office, a dollar in the U.S. now buys as many goods as 2.94 marks will in Germany-yet the dollar was being traded in Germany last week for only 2.33 marks. The most immediate reason is that for months, American interest rates have been dropping, while in Europe rates were rising. Seeking the highest return, investors, including American-based multinational firms, have been dumping dollars and buying into currencies...