Monday, March 22, 2010

ONE SMALL STEP FOR ASSIMILATION . . .

Philip Roth's Alexander Portnoy: In first grade I was asked by the teacher to identify a picture of what I knew perfectly well my mother referred to as a "spatula." But for the life of me I could not think of the word in English.

(To which the teacher probably said to herself, "Gevalt")


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