Short-a-Day: Amos Oz's "The King of Norway"
Originally published in The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 3.[Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston.]Luna said, "Why do you take all the sorrow of the world on your shoulders?"And Zvi replied, "Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it."In this very shor…
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