Unto Death: Crusade and Late Love (2 Novellas) by Amos Oz

Author:Amos Oz [Oz, Amos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1978-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

Moreover, for many years I was accompanied in my travels by a middle-aged Trades Union singer, Liuba Kaganovskaya. We appeared together, she and I, all over the country. She read out documents, I gave my lecture, she sang songs, I summed up.

Over the years, Liuba Kaganovskaya's voice gradually cracked and gave out. She was given, I believe, some position with the Working Women's Council.

Since then I always travel alone.

I am sure you know the smell of the lonely roads at night, in Galilee, in the Jordan valley, in the western Negev. Sad and remote. You are driven from darkness to darkness in a dusty old truck by a hulking farm hand or a weary cultural worker. The headlight beams are foreign to the night fields, foreign even to themselves. Your speed rends the darkness, and it responds with a low howl. Occasionally a nocturnal animal crosses the desolate road, is trapped by the beam, bristles, and vanishes.

The brakes may squeal, and your head hits the windshield.

Then the silent wind and the smell of darkness. Sometimes you are suddenly gripped by a panic: the strange driver may attack and strangle you; the earth may rise up and fall on you; a star may drop down on you. Na! And so a blind wave of fervor boils up inside you and floods your soul, and you find yourself suddenly expecting an instantaneous illumination, a break in the clouds, something must, absolutely must reveal itself, a formula, a dazzling system, a purpose, surely it is inconceivable that you will go from birth to death without experiencing a single flash of illumination, without encountering a single ray of sharp light without something happening, surely it is impossible that all your life you have been nothing more than a barren dream inside yourself, surely there is something, something must make itself known, there must be something—

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