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An excerpt from one of my favorite books.
Oct. 17th, 2009 03:31 pmI'm not even sure how to begin this entry. All of a sudden, I got a massive flashback to one of my all-time favorite novels - a book that was never officially translated from Hebrew into English.
The book in question was named Wild ('Pere' in Hebrew) and was written by an author named Gabi Nitzan.
The back cover blurb summarizes it quite well:
"I went on my way and I didn't even know where I'm going or who exactly am I running away from. It was a little after I came to America, because in Israel everyone just wanted to find Ronen inside of me. My name is Adam Rothschild. I was born in Ronen's body seven months ago, three years after he died in a place called Intifada. Professor Delphi the Third says I'm lucky to be born like this - in an adult's body, because that's why no one bothers to program me. I don't know what 'to program' means. Tracy's mother says that Gaia needs people like me. Gaia is the world. I don't want to tell you everything that happened to me now - Tracy says that it's forbidden to read the back cover of a book because it spoils the magic. So I'll just say who else is here - Pluto. The angel Kadouri, which you may know as Security Consultant Nathan Kadouri, but he's really an angel. Michelle, who is the most angry and curse-y woman I've ever met, but she has cute red hedgehog hair. Elliot, my best friend in America who disappeared, a computer genius who didn't agree to be a slave. Buddy Greenwald, the owner of Profit Inc. who shaved forests and poisoned oceans until he vanished too. And a hobbit, and an Indian wizard, and a dragon and a prince and a princess, and a car with a trailer. And a lot of ducks."
The 'Ducks' in question, are an allegory that the Professor (a character who often speaks to Adam through his laptop - which he named "Diva") applied to life. Rather early on in the book, he sends Adam a connect-the-dots picture of a Duck and teaches him to look at the picture as what it is - random dots - and not as the pattern that he expects it to become - a duck. The duck, he says, is a story we're telling ourself, in an attempt to explain the magical away.
Without further ado, here's an excerpt from the novel, as translated by me. No copyright infringement is intended.
( Taken from Chapter 41 of the book )
The book in question was named Wild ('Pere' in Hebrew) and was written by an author named Gabi Nitzan.
The back cover blurb summarizes it quite well:
"I went on my way and I didn't even know where I'm going or who exactly am I running away from. It was a little after I came to America, because in Israel everyone just wanted to find Ronen inside of me. My name is Adam Rothschild. I was born in Ronen's body seven months ago, three years after he died in a place called Intifada. Professor Delphi the Third says I'm lucky to be born like this - in an adult's body, because that's why no one bothers to program me. I don't know what 'to program' means. Tracy's mother says that Gaia needs people like me. Gaia is the world. I don't want to tell you everything that happened to me now - Tracy says that it's forbidden to read the back cover of a book because it spoils the magic. So I'll just say who else is here - Pluto. The angel Kadouri, which you may know as Security Consultant Nathan Kadouri, but he's really an angel. Michelle, who is the most angry and curse-y woman I've ever met, but she has cute red hedgehog hair. Elliot, my best friend in America who disappeared, a computer genius who didn't agree to be a slave. Buddy Greenwald, the owner of Profit Inc. who shaved forests and poisoned oceans until he vanished too. And a hobbit, and an Indian wizard, and a dragon and a prince and a princess, and a car with a trailer. And a lot of ducks."
The 'Ducks' in question, are an allegory that the Professor (a character who often speaks to Adam through his laptop - which he named "Diva") applied to life. Rather early on in the book, he sends Adam a connect-the-dots picture of a Duck and teaches him to look at the picture as what it is - random dots - and not as the pattern that he expects it to become - a duck. The duck, he says, is a story we're telling ourself, in an attempt to explain the magical away.
Without further ado, here's an excerpt from the novel, as translated by me. No copyright infringement is intended.
( Taken from Chapter 41 of the book )
