You Only Live Until You Die by Sol Weinstein

Author:Sol Weinstein
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Hosanna! A boat has crashed upon our shores!

From it limped a bedraggled, seasick collection of brownish-yellow, slant-eyed souls from various parts of the great Chee Yi Nah land we traversed, who speak in tongues with which I am conversant. They are pagans who worship crickets and coolie hats. The last of us are endeavoring to teach them our belief in one God Almighty. We have built them an Ark of the Covenant and to hear them repeat the Sh’ma Israel gladdens the heart.

Ruben the Soothsayer and Hilda the Harlot were found dead at nightfall. Natural causes.

My loins cry for gratification, yet there is no one to cleave unto. However, one of the newcomers is a maiden, Oshima, fair to behold, whose glances signal the unmistakable message that she, too, wishes cleaving unto. Can such a thing be possible between a man of my hoary years and a maid of fifteen? Under pretext of teaching her to read and write our language I have come close to her often. I shall ask her father for her hand.

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