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Show Rose {1/2S/83) nage 36 ~r. K ?-!r. R Mr. K Mr. B we bet barmitzvahed and they become a ~eacon, you see, ir it's Deacon. So, I had to go to church when he became a ~eacon. You know, you asked a question "how did it happen?", my Jewish consciousness, "how did it happen?". h1ete~, I can't tell you how it haupened. All I can tell you is that it happened. I can only tell you that there's a nossibility t~at I was revolting from the restrictions •. you can only deal with these people, you can only be a part of these people and the rest of the world was not for you .• I don't really know. All I know is that that's the way it happened. Maybe I thought the girls were prettier on the other side of the fence, I don't know. You've heard that before, it's nothing new. ~aybe I'm just as superficial as the rest of them are. I've not only heard it, I've felt it ~yself. ~ou've felt it, OK. You resisted the feeling, and I didn't. The whole issue of it is curious because the whole issue of how to preserve Judiasm seems to be at stake. How the hell do you preserve it? Sometimes, I'm sure, that for some people the questio of whether it's even worth preserving sometim~comes up. You know, just what is being preserved? You know, do you have to be that exclusive? Well, you see, those are questions I had a lot later in my life. t!t~~ft!tMiiX/t~tttl~~i In the earlier years I never thought in terms of iMtt~tt am I preserving or not preserving Judaism or anything else. It \'ras purely a subjective, unique~ that was in whatever I was doing. The matter of the preservation of Jewdai n e v er came into the pictnr~ except that once when I never wanted t have a ny chi l dren because I didn't want to get involved into what |
