Q: True or False? all Regular Mid-Day Coffee Shop Patrons are unemployed, crazy or have leprosy?
A: True.
Which is why I figured that I should talk to them so as to get some blogging ideas.
Today, I met an elderly man, who is apparently retired. He was, he said, a retired doctor who devoted himself to Jewish Mysticism.
I asked him what sorts of works he was reading, and he said it wasn't entirely a question of reading.
"But I want you to read this." He gave me a photocopied packet. "Keep it."
"Well," I said.
He excused himself.
I read the article and here is a line from it "The danger is not that the golem…will develop overwhelming powers ;it lies in the tension which the creative process arouses in the creator himself.”
