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A Strange Tiling
Vulnerability
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Friday, Dec. 1, 1M1
tion. The artists who have regard
ed their labor in terms ot ritual
have also suffered almost inevit
ably such ruination. Gaugin’s lat
ter work was burned. Da Vinci’s
master-pieoes were largely con-
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by BEN NATHAN
The article 1 wrote for this
Hanukah, for this very space you
are reading in now, was stolen or,
rather, misappropriated from the
bureau on which it lay the night
before the deadline, which is to
day, the day I am writing this
second piece, this Hanukah piece.
It wasn’t that the article was
stolen in any ordinary spirit. I
would suspect Hanukah articles
aren’t ever stolen in an ordinary
spirit. But this one was a rather
extraordinary one, and a depart
ure from any I had ever prepared
for any previous holiday. It was
a garland, a listing of some forty-
two adaptive notations from a
Cabbalistic text, the Zohar, on the
subject of “Light and Fire,’’ all
pertaining to the light that burned
in the Temple, the little light in
the oil, during the days of the ac
tual decimation.
It is probable that your editor
may have rejected the piece as
being what young people term
“too far out.” In fact, I console
myself with the suspicion that the
real root of its misappropriation
was prevention of its rejection . .
that is, it avoided what may have
been an even more painful scene
had it been rejected. But that, I
don’t think, was the key root for
its misappropriation. The key root
was twofold—the motive of the
misappropriator and the nature of
esoteric documents to get lost or
be destroyed . . . because these
were not merely quotations. There
are other keys of course to its
disappearance (and, needless to
say, I kept no carbons) but if I
were to dwell on these, and take
those right down to their tips, I
would conclude with a metaphysi
cal tome if not an autobiography
of Enockian character.
That of course would not be ap
propriate to the Hanukah space in
this publication.
But, then, neither is this per
haps. And then, perhaps it is, at
least in this sense: that esoteric
constructions, whether they be
books or stone temples, are dang
erously short-lived and have a
manner of eluding their possessors.
I believe a man spent some twen
ty-five years documenting the
language of Easter Island from
the last living member of the old
order, and, on the way home, the
book sank. His story abounds with
similar occurences. The Tower of
Babel, in some dimension, is rep
resentative of this loss of com
munication, and on this level as
well. My family, on my mother’s
side, inhabited Safed that is in
Israel during the old order too.
The elder there spent a lifetime
compiling probably the most
thorough Cabbalistic commentary
done in several hundred years.
During the Arab-Israel war some
marauders entered the holy town
and burned every carton of writ
ing. Everyone I know who deals
in sacred works fears this destruc-
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