The One-Star Jew: Stories by Evanier David

Author:Evanier, David [Evanier, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497641679
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-06-16T22:00:00+00:00

XXII

On New Year’s Eve, Luther prepares to go home alone.

“Ever thine … forever thine … that keeps running through my mind … where do I remember that from?” Luther muses. “Oh yes, this winter day reminded me … a picture on the piano of herself that my mother inscribed to my father … it was in winter she gave it to him … ‘Ever thine’… we laughed at the Victorian sentimentality.”

He talks at random. He recalls being eighteen … a friendship with another fellow. On New Year’s Eve they would go from table to table, talking to people. “What courage I had then!”

He says to me, “You haven’t hit this season yet … I look at the books on my shelves and it makes me sick. I should throw them out. I built the library for my family … but they don’t read. Not one of them is a natural reader. My first greatest pleasure was to read … I should unload. How can I take off to Pago Pago if I feel like it?”

Luther tucks his scarf in his coat, and takes his umbrella. At my desk on his way out, he suddenly begins reciting:

When I was one-and-twenty

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