Heidegger

A quote from Howard Jacobson’s excellent novel (about Jewishness, about
Jewing):

“They sang songs in Buchenwald. Figure that. … True, they were ironic
songs about _Schicksal_, but a song’s still a song.

“_Schicksal_ — meaning fate or destiny.

“Shikse — meaning floozie. From which shikseh — meaning Gentile girl…

“They used to say that character was destiny, but now they know that
language is.”

[from Howard Jacobson ‘Kalooki Nights’]

You see, the hero of the novel keeps marrying shiksehs; his destiny…

Language = Destiny: Remind anyone of anyone?

regards

michaelP

ps: above, I kept mistyping ‘destiny’ as desyiny (daseiny, anyone?)

Posted on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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