Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Is There a Ring Composition in the Hebrew?
i think when we think about your writing life in terms of ring position, i start seeing ring composition everywhere. Your interest in homer was because you recognized the way your grandfather told stories. There's a kind of recurrence that runs through the hebrew bible, both en large and small ways. I'm hardly a biblical scholar, so i'm going to preface every notion with that you really are lighk on tora as the arc of the tora evolves. You know that even children know that time is composed of rings? And as a child, i always wondered why a tree and not a rock or a bird? An adult, i realized it had to do with
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