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I was brought up on three dead languages....
I was an anachronism in every way....

Once I played the role of a blind man and Shosha let me touch her forehead, cheeks, mouth. She kissed the palm of my hand and said, "Don't tell Mama."

In my dreams she was both dead and alive. I played with her in a garden which was also a cemetery. Dead girls joined us there, wearing garments that were ornate shrounds. They danced in circles and sang songs. They swung, skated, occaisionally hovered in the air.

"Yes, come, young man!" Sam Dreiman shouted. "Keep your wits about you and you'll be swimming in gravy."

Yes, I had to find pleasure before I died and returned to nothing.