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"In a minute I'll swallow a pin." Victoria lifted her two great breasts in her hands
with a look of perfect contempt: "Two for a penny, two for a penny, they're not so
new any more!" They finally finished the fitting. The seamstress retired to the next
room to drone away on her sewing machine. "Now have some tea and tell me
what's troubling you. Is your mother giving you a hard time? Your grandmother?"
"Look here, Victoria. My mother says that once a woman starts with a man she
can't ...
"In a minute I'll swallow a pin." Victoria lifted her two great breasts in her hands
with a look of perfect contempt: "Two for a penny, two for a penny, they're not so
new any more!" They finally finished the fitting. The seamstress retired to the next
room to drone away on her sewing machine. "Now have some tea and tell me
what's troubling you. Is your mother giving you a hard time? Your grandmother?"
"Look here, Victoria. My mother says that once a woman starts with a man she
can't ...
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Sometimes Jerusalem seemed to be built as much out of obsessions as of stone.
The streets of the city teemed with inventors, mad geniuses, incorrigible
buttonholers, writers of petitions to the League of Nations. Here today, gone
tomorrow. One day Sara was traveling on the bus to the hospital next to a chain-
smoking, butch- haired woman of about sixty. "These cigarettes will be the end of
me," said the woman to Sara. "But enjoy it, I tell myself, you only live once." "How
do you know?
Sometimes Jerusalem seemed to be built as much out of obsessions as of stone.
The streets of the city teemed with inventors, mad geniuses, incorrigible
buttonholers, writers of petitions to the League of Nations. Here today, gone
tomorrow. One day Sara was traveling on the bus to the hospital next to a chain-
smoking, butch- haired woman of about sixty. "These cigarettes will be the end of
me," said the woman to Sara. "But enjoy it, I tell myself, you only live once." "How
do you know?
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for a second. "They're my good-luck charm," he explained. "Put down the
binoculars and they'll grab me. They'll make shoe leather out of my skin." Each
time he returned, shaking from tension, his teeth aching because he
unconsciously ground them all night, slipping into a house in the Jewish Quarter
of the Old City in order to change clothes, he would quiz his superior to make
sure he had really been looking. He never quite believed him. "All right, so tell me
, tell me who I talked with.
for a second. "They're my good-luck charm," he explained. "Put down the
binoculars and they'll grab me. They'll make shoe leather out of my skin." Each
time he returned, shaking from tension, his teeth aching because he
unconsciously ground them all night, slipping into a house in the Jewish Quarter
of the Old City in order to change clothes, he would quiz his superior to make
sure he had really been looking. He never quite believed him. "All right, so tell me
, tell me who I talked with.
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| Título | City of many days |
| Autor | Shulamith Hareven |
| Editor | Doubleday, 1977 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 5 May 2008 |
| N.º de páginas | 205 páginas |
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