By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less...
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By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less two. Women who can tolerate his anger, his obsessions, and his antic clowning all at the same time are not easy to come by.But when the thought arises in Alan that he's been "chosen" to deliver Jewish America from the threat of Anti-Semitism, then all his connections to reality fall away, including those to his lovers and his family. Recalling the
Contents; April; 1. St. Krieger's 911; 2. Notes from Underground, and Over; 3. This is the Bread of Affliction; 4. Bei Ursula, or Shiksa Schicksal; 5. Krieger Domesticus; May; 6. How Could Anyone Named Martha Nussbaum Look Like That?; 7. Mother's Day Night; June; 8. Not a Very Good Patient; Paper Trail 1: Vital Signs; 9. Listen to that Long Snake Moan; Paper Trail 2; 10. St. Adolf's 911; Paper Trail 3: Memo to his colleagues in the emergency department, 1997; 11. Goldtooth Bites; Paper Trail 4: Application to the Nyu School of Nursing, 1984; July
12. Independence Day: Rallies in Black, White, and Blue13. Philosophy in a New Key; Paper Trail 5: Ursula's Prager Tagebuch; August; 14. August 6: The Bomb Drops. Bye, Ursula; 15. The Golem of Pelham Parkway; 16. The Jewish Child's Book of Cognitive Dissonance; 17. Shrinking; 18. The Jewish Question; Paper Trail 6: Answer to a Personal Ad in the New York Review; September; 19. September 10: Happy Birthday to Who; 20. Alan Awake; October; 21. A Walk on the Wild Side: Celebrating Zelenka's 317th Birthday; November; 22. Ritual Bath; Paper Trail 7: His Suicide Note-Just in Case
23. Kristallnacht on the Golem Heights: A Night of Faith and Infinite Resignation24. Hip Hop; Paper Trail 8: A Poem Dated 11/99 Found in a Desk Drawer; Thanks…;
