January 6, 2006

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  Today’s birthday:
  E. L. Doctorow, author of
   City of God

  “In the Garden of Adding
  live Even and Odd.”
  – City of God

  
  Adapted from
  
  Ad Reinhardt

  “… I don’t write exclusively on Jewish
  themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short stories, Strange
  Attractors, contained nine pieces, five of which were, to some degree, Jewish,
  and this ratio has provided me with a precise mathematical answer (for me, still
  the best kind of answer) to the question of whether I am a Jewish writer. I am
  five-ninths a Jewish writer.”

  – Rebecca Goldstein,
  “Against Logic“

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