tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post7440472653838966292..comments2023-05-27T04:26:16.242-07:00Comments on Dreaming Without Memory in Strangled Sleep: Nothing is Illuminated? Really?Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-18099127453215438602007-01-14T20:10:00.000-08:002007-01-14T20:10:00.000-08:00Thanks for the tip, lovefourbooks! I'll have to ch...Thanks for the tip, lovefourbooks! I'll have to check out Amir Gutfreund!Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-41719383005753500762007-01-14T01:14:00.000-08:002007-01-14T01:14:00.000-08:00I very much appreciated your response, and believe...I very much appreciated your response, and believe you would like to check out award winning Israeli author Amir Gutfreund's debut, "Our Holocaust" which mixes humor and pathos and has a new way of telling the story without using those all too well known images.<br /><br />“Even if I write an instruction manual for a washing machine, it will always contain <br />humor, and it will always contain lovefourbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16270983403224490607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-37401255194653576532006-12-27T17:33:00.000-08:002006-12-27T17:33:00.000-08:00All too true, Casey. And that's why I have a disse...All too true, Casey. And that's why I have a dissertation -- proposing new ways to tell old stories (midrash)!!Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-6044200860515145662006-12-27T11:32:00.000-08:002006-12-27T11:32:00.000-08:00One little comment, only diagonally on topic: Two ...One little comment, only diagonally on topic: Two things occur to me upon reading the last sentence of your post, Monica:<br /><br />#1) how strange and troubling it is that corpses and gas chambers have become standard literary devices.<br /><br />#2) how, even given my awareness of the troubling nature of observation #1, I cannot help recognizing (with you) the standardness of these images.<br Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820693522030084335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-53705403375135100692006-12-25T14:47:00.000-08:002006-12-25T14:47:00.000-08:00You know, I did wonder myself how much of the arti...You know, I did wonder myself how much of the article was really meant just to be provocative for the sake of being provocative. But, like you said, there are other ways to be outrageous.Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-78443079562439107082006-12-21T15:15:00.000-08:002006-12-21T15:15:00.000-08:00Well, maybe some people feel compelled to say outr...Well, maybe some people feel compelled to say outrageous things just for the sake of saying outrageous things? Is difficult to fathom though, out of ALL the things to possibly write about, that someone would feel so compelled.Adam Shprintzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993870402069612672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-56684776333044380462006-12-21T13:53:00.000-08:002006-12-21T13:53:00.000-08:00Thanks, Adam -- glad you agree. And I agree with y...Thanks, Adam -- glad you agree. And I agree with you about the poor timing of the piece. Whenever I read things like that I am always shocked, but when it comes from someone with a Jewish background or a connection to the Jewish world, I just don't understand the impulse.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by!Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-67505148704354778682006-12-20T20:13:00.000-08:002006-12-20T20:13:00.000-08:00I am entirely with you about that posting, and fou...I am entirely with you about that posting, and found your response to be beautifully elucidated and right on point. I especially found the original article to be particularly ill-timed given the events in Iran of the previous week...Adam Shprintzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993870402069612672noreply@blogger.com