| 1. Jewlia Eisenberg - Hebrew Textbook |
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(Asja) One time, Benjamin was carrying a Hebrew textbook. He said his friend Scholem was trying to talk him into moving to Palestine, where he would...
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| 2. Jewlia Eisenberg - Gershom Is Schocked |
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(Text partially based on Gershom (Gerhardt) Scholem's intro to the Moscow Diary. Scholem was Benjamin's good friend; he disapproved of Asja and...
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| 3. Jewlia Eisenberg - Meister Of Kultur |
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(Asja) That capitalism sucked, we didn't even have to discuss. He was against capitalism and had lost faith in the Tolstoyan idea of moral...
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| 4. Jewlia Eisenberg - Dame La Mano |
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If the sea was made of milk, and little boats of cinnamon, I would plunge completely to save my darling. In the sea, there is a tower. In the tower,...
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| 5. Jewlia Eisenberg - Adir Hu |
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God, mighty and powerful, when I'm in trouble I call to you. You are with me and I do not fear. Make haste and mend the breaches in the sanctuary....
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| 6. Jewlia Eisenberg - Fortress Moscow |
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(Walter/imagined) For me Moscow remains a fortress. The climate is harsh and I don't speak the language. Reich is always there. Asja's life is boxed...
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| 7. Jewlia Eisenberg - Still Holding Out |
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(Walter) If I am still holding out fairly well, it is because despite everything, I recognize Asja's attachment to me. The long gazes she directs at...
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| 8. Jewlia Eisenberg - Social Contract |
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I don't need anything And I don't like anyone who needs anything I don't need anyone And I don't like anything Who needs anyone? Who needs anything?...
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| 9. Jewlia Eisenberg - Eskimo Suit |
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(imagined Asja) (In the diary, Walter and Asja walk by a Siberian fur suit in a store window. Asja wants it, and Walter can't afford it.) W: Well,...
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| 10. Jewlia Eisenberg - Bread And Circuses |
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(Asja) Benjamin accompanied me to a festival in Capri. I was with Daga on the piazza. Tried to buy almonds, he helped with Italian. Escorting me...
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| 11. Jewlia Eisenberg - Guinea Tea |
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Sitting at the kitchen table, watching him eat my food He is wearing what he calls a "guinea T" Others call it a "wife-beater" But he would never do...
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| 12. Jewlia Eisenberg - Dream Of Me |
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(imagined Asja) (Susan Buck-Morss, in her book The Dialectics of Seeing about Benjamin's Arcades Project, describes Asja's frustration with Walter's...
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| 13. Jewlia Eisenberg - Sicily |
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The air fare is prohibitive and I don't speak the language. The culture's not near or dear to me but I wanna go to Sicily. Charlie Luciano took a...
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| 14. Jewlia Eisenberg - The Touch Of Her Hands |
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(Walter) Asja lay down on the bed. We kissed at length. But the thing that excited me most was the touch of her hands. I placed my right palm...
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