it is the juxtaposition of linesof
recorded thoughts written words that
marveled him
in a piece he wrote Hey Thats my job what job would that be he knew
because he wrote the piece but even out
of context Hey Thats my job is probable for a variety of uncounted
circumstances and situations
Hey Thats my job
he was reading Roths The Plot
Against America a book he had been meaning to readhe bought it but he hadnt handled it since he slipped it into a place on a bookshelf Roth died
seemed a good time then to read
ita commemoration he was familiar with him
although he wasnt a fan he didnt think
reading The Plot would flip him certainly
not like he was flipped by McCarthy and Doctorow and DeLillo
Hey Thats my job
he was of the habit of jotting down
notes page numbers from books he read and The Plot was no different he had been intrigued by the Fall of the
Ottoman Empirewhich wasnt taught in school there were great holes in his public
school education which he aligned with the failure of curriculum the failure of
school boards which seemed more interested in their posture and politics than educating
children he thought he might become a teacher until his first education class in college its first week Curriculum Whats that
It is the guidelines by which we educate what
the fuck? he was ignorant however thats an aside the Ottoman Empire
would wait until he properly honed in on it
so he was of the habit of noting what he read he noted historical years(for
reference) noted amusing passages he noted how Roth explained how his family
almost moved to Union from Weequahic Newark New Jersey all of six miles yet what he took from that passage was Roths
mothers “deeply ingrained mistrust of Christians” HEY THATS MY JOB
Mrs Roth a Jew was raised in Elizabeth
New Jersey an industrial port town quarter the size of Newark dominated by the
Irish working class their politicians a
tight knit parish
Jewish and Gentiles prefer knitting
different and separate garments
why wouldnt they
he had an abiding deeply
ingrained mistrust of Christians whose path to Heaven was littered with the
bodies of people who did not believe as they believed
he laughed out loud when he heard
fundamentalist Christians rant of Muslims as heretics Evil
because he knew somewhere in the world fundamentalist Muslimspossibly at
the very same moment were ranting about Christian heretics
lotsa hate espoused by People of God
somehow lost in the mix was that they
were opposite sides of the same minted coin
he should correct himself he had a deeply ingrained
mistrust of religious people they were as unsavory as business
people but then he supposed religion is a business too
0957, Sunday,
1 7. 18
Nneka Focus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7acQMyti4
