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grain of salt, is neither a reputation of a raving radi-
country nor a nttion, but a cal," Oz said, "I've never
collection of arguments."
been a radical. I am essen-
Oz recalled a conversa- tially an evolutionist. One
tion he had with some "very of the key notions of
angry" North African Begin Zionism — has always in-
followers in a cafe in Bet volved a slow recovery from
Shemesh, a town about 30 certain typical Jewish
miles east of Jerusalem. neuroses, such as the rest-
"While they were saying less expectation for im-
that I should have been mediate salvation and, on
shot, hung, drawn and the other hand, perpetual
quartered for being a leftist, fear of a forthcoming cal,am-
a defeatist, a kibbutznik, an ity. This kind of life —
Ashkenazi — you name it — either redemption or calam-
they were actually plying ity — is all wrong. I think
me with loving kindness. we people ought to get a lot
They made me feel comfort- less poetic and a lot more
able, paid for my coffee, lit prosaic, so to speak. I'm also
cigarettes for me before I a bit of a poet. Poems are
finished the one I was amok- quick. They catch fire and
ing, worried about the notes either flow or not. Prose is
I was taking and whether an evolution."
they were talking too fast."
But before this faint inch-
"I felt that down below ing toward a presumably
the integral was powerful. I higher and better way ofliv-
was a stray son of the fam- ing and loving in a nation
ily. And they were to me." that is only a speck on the
globe, there is still the ac-
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The family of Israel is in rimony and the confusion
disarray. There are many and the occasionally sale-
stray sons, many errant able bromides of today.
daughters. And the land of North Africans curse, East
the family is not what many European Chasids spit at
expected, not what many apostates, Labor bickers
fought for. At one point, Oz with Likud, Arabs want
has written, Israel "could something they can call
have become an exemplary their own.
:What will become of us
state, an open, argumentat-
ive, involved society of all, I do not know," Oz con-
unique moral standards . . . fesses in this book. "If there
the most egalitarian and is Someone with an answer
h would do well to sit up
creative social democratic he
a speak. And he'd better
society in the world." But and
the visions of the founding not tarry. The situation is
fathers "will not be fulfilled not good."
"In today's Israel," Oz told
in the way they wanted
them," Oz expects, partly me, "there's a lot of soul
because "the idea of trans- searching, a certain sadness
planting a socialist, semi over the consequences of the
anarchist, East European last year in Lebanon where
vision in the heart of the crime and punishment have
Middle East was not realis- become one. Israel is sim-
tic." To Oz, the most relev- mering with arguments and
ant, the most controversial ideas and passions. Israel is
of these ideas is a small, de- sad, yes, but certainly not
centralized society "based melancholy."
To bridge the sadness, to
on small cells where people
live and work within survive the festering doubts
that have come out of Leba-
perimeters of shame and
non, to inspire new dreams
perimeters of pride." To -
day's materialism and for Israel, Oz the humanist
"misery," he said, make leaves us with no answers,
these ideas more valid now only the gentle, simple and
than at the turn of the cen- laconic advice: "Patience.
is no shortcut."
tury when they .were
And so we wait. And we
created.
spiritual dream new dreams. Or
the
Oz,
humanist, pins his hopes for s shake the dust, if it is our
a renaissance of the Israeli preference, out of the old
dream on a younger genera- ones. For Israel, in the end,
as Oz said; may be a "collec-
tion that might eventually
"get fed up with the tion of arguments." Or it
may be a collection of
blessings of western con-
sumer society." His Israel of dreams.
the future is "a very
Mediterranean society —
hot-blooded, noisy, articu-
late; warm, friendly. I don't
mourn this. I believe that,
American naivete about
after all, that's where it be- the Middle East, Oz said,
longs."
divides the region into a
Bringing Israel to this patchwork of blacks and
sense of place, nudging it whites, "into goodies and
toward Oz's more spiritual baddies." "Goodies" are-U.S.
prescriptions will be a allies; "baddies" are Soviet
gradual and "painful" proc- allies. "The real and essen-
ess. "Despite the fact that I tial rift within the domain
have in certain circles the Continued on next page
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