“There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.” WayMindProgressiveAnti SemitismAdaptive Book:Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked Source: Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
“America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.” ThinkingWayMadeHardSeemsAmericaPositionEnglandJewSettingSettingsMade ItOfficialsFascinatingOutsidersVagueViewpointsDescentTerminal Author:James Lasdun