The Palestinians were telling the world: just three years after the catastrophe that befell on the Jewish people in Europe, a new catastropheâvery different, but no less painfulâis unfolding in our homeland, Palestine.
I don't have time,' I told myself, 'to kill myself: I have to write a paper on Rimbaud.' Those were the days I could hardly tell the difference between hospital and classroom and walking the dog at 1 A.M. seemed the only way to preserve an illusion of balance.