Guest guest Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 Recently, JF had a post on the Bill Moyer interview with Israeli author, Grossman. Well, sadly his son was killed in Lebanon last weekend, two days after his father protested the escalation of the hostilities. I had dinner with an Israeli friend last night and she cried when she told me the news. His father wrote an obituary for his son, which is hard to track down on the Internet, but I have an excerpt from an obituary located at http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1850908,00.html; " I once thought of teaching my son a private language, isolating him from the speaking world on purpose, lying to him from the moment of his birth so he would believe only in the language I gave him. And it would be a compassionate language. What I mean is, I wanted to take him by the hand and name everything he saw with words that would save him from the inevitable heartaches so that he wouldn't be able to comprehend the existence of, for instance, war. Or that people kill, or that this red here is blood. It's a kind of used-up idea, I know, but I love to imagine him crossing through life with an innocent trusting smile - the first truly enlightened child " . In the dance, Frances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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