A common ride on the 480 bus. It was 9:30 p.m. I had spent the day listening to music at my friend Rami's house, who had a sound system that must have cost fifty thousand dollars or more. We had discussed the qualities of the DVD-Audio, a new format that was the closest to an analog you could lis...
We were able to isolate the new problem but what you are going to hear is simply disquieting. It is a virus named “Alergum Montana” because it was identified first in the Alps and because it has symptoms similar to those of allergies, small red spots scattered over the whole body. Most of those a...
Raquel says she is afraid we will meet. So am I. For now it’s just e-mails, and we are actually finally both experiencing a relationship that is completely extraterritorial and extramundane; a literary relationship. The Raquel from the e-mails is the Raquel of words, and Moshe is literature. We s...
Everything was so strange. I arrived and I saw them in front of me, I ran to kiss them, and as I go towards them they suddenly disappear, I couldn’t see them anymore. I was sure I had seen them, that they had been right in front of me, but suddenly - nothing. As if they had never been there. I lo...
He convinced me to drive him to a book signing for Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Le racisme expliqué a ma fille. It must have been before the Second Intifada. I drove him because he never found time to get a driver’s license, I don’t think he has taken a single lesson. Perhaps the steering wheel frightens ...