House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon

Author:Emuna Elon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

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And Martin. Martin continues his nightly scanning of distant radio stations.

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Yoel knows only what he picks up through his five senses, but deep inside he is forced to admit that Bat-Ami picks up more than that. A few years ago, she decided to leave teaching and become proficient in some sort of parapsychological, physiological, spiritual therapy, and at first he feared she would get bored and change her mind, but since then, from day to day and by word of mouth, the list of women seeking this odd New Age therapy had grown, a therapy she’s good at and about which he understands nothing. Her clients admiringly contend that she possesses the powers of a witch. And after one of them presented her, full of thanks, with a picture of a witch, additional clients and friends began plying her with drawings of witches, statuettes of witches, books about witches, and all sorts of items embossed with images of witches. Bat-Ami smiles when she sees how alarmed he is with all this witchery. They’re just images of old women, she says, trying to calm him, at a certain age every woman gets a wrinkled face and a nice hump, a hooked nose and a hoarse voice, and every woman carries a broom. It’s only you men who are capable of attributing negative magical powers to these sweet old ladies!

Once she was given a witch marionette. A loud handclap made it jump on its broomstick and its face light up while its contorted body emitted a malevolent witch’s chuckle. He felt uneasy when Bat-Ami called him to come and see the grotesque show, and she, who of course had noticed his unease even though he smiled and said with forced amazement, What a present, what a present, had shrugged and taken her what-a-present, and that was the end of that. Until one summer night he got up from his desk very late when Bat-Ami was already asleep, and started, as was his wont every night, going from room to room and turning off the lights and locking the windows, and when he went into the room that was Bat-Ami’s clinic he saw on the white wall near the window a huge dark brown cockroach, and he hates cockroaches, especially the ones that come up from the sewers. He detests them so much that he usually calls Bat-Ami to perform their execution, but in this case Bat-Ami was already asleep. And the disgusting creature that transmits bacteria and illnesses was resting on the wall, its long legs symmetrically arranged on both sides of its shiny body and its long antennae waving in the air like two human hairs taken out of their context. Yoel had no choice but to be lionhearted, take off a shoe, raise it, and with it hit the wall with all his might—and the moment he saw the cockroach fleeing down the wall and disappearing under the chest of drawers, he heard a loud discordant

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