March 18, 2003
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Purim
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“Comedy gold!”
— Mel Brooks
BBC News, Tuesday, 21 March,
2000, 19:19 GMT
Graveside party† celebrates
Hebron massacre
Celebrants dressed as
Baruch Goldstein
Song of God
The Jewish holiday Purim began at sundown
on St. Patrick’s Day.
“It’s Springtime for Esther and Israel!”
It is said that God is in the details. The details:
Purim is the holiday celebrating Esther. For more on that name, see Three in One.
From The New Yorker, issue dated March 24, 2003:
“Lenin could create an impression of selfless humanitarianism; he was also a savage and ruthless politician — a ‘pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat‡ at the bottom,’ as Vladimir Nabokov put it….”
Sounds familiar, somehow.
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See also the entry Homer that precedes it… in honor of
Saint Bernard Malamud, whose feast day is today.
† Added March 20:
See also this year’s graveside Purim party.
‡ Added March 20:
For more on the dead rat, see the entry of March 19.
See also a relevant quotation from James Cagney.
