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" Last week, the novelist Amos Oz observed to me that Israel contains more different visions of Heaven than any outsider can imagine. Everyone who came over brought his own dream of Paradise with him. On Oz’s own kibbutz, people work hard until 2 p.m. Then they wash and rest and dress, and after lunch, many of them being Russian in origin, they read serious books and listen to music; they spend their afternoons and evenings gravely discussing Marxism. Their greatest pleasure is to talk in the old way about revolution and socialism and the future of mankind. The German Jews here often rest in a Kultur paradise, reading Homer and Plato and Goethe, and listening to Mozart. "

Saul Bellow , To Jerusalem and Back


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Saul Bellow quote : Last week, the novelist Amos Oz observed to me that Israel contains more different visions of Heaven than any outsider can imagine. Everyone who came over brought his own dream of Paradise with him. On Oz’s own kibbutz, people work hard until 2 p.m. Then they wash and rest and dress, and after lunch, many of them being Russian in origin, they read serious books and listen to music; they spend their afternoons and evenings gravely discussing Marxism. Their greatest pleasure is to talk in the old way about revolution and socialism and the future of mankind. The German Jews here often rest in a Kultur paradise, reading Homer and Plato and Goethe, and listening to Mozart.