Sunday, October 16, 2011

I am dying to read a quotation or citation by Amos Oz that is either insightful or even pretty from a literary point of view

"As Amos Oz, the country’s most celebrated author, put it in a newspaper essay in August, “The first thing these demonstrators are saying, even before ‘social justice’ and ‘down with the government,’ is: ‘We are brethren.’ ”"  You are supposed to read this and exclaim: wow.  How deep.  How profound.  How insightful.  We are brethren?  How does he come up with those gems?  You talk about Hegel's aphorisms and there is this guy who came up with "we are brethren"??