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After they banished me from Jerusalem I wandered south, leaving my position and my inheritance behind. What need had I of money? I wished to be dead.
I tore my blue robe with the three-striped sleeve and cast it from me. I traded it to a beggar for the filthy, louse-infested rags on his back. But the lice have not bitten me. They deserted the rags as soon as I donned them.
Even the vermin will have nothing to do with me.
--from the Glass scroll
Rockefeller Museum translation
1991
Israel
The Judean Wilderness
“Don’t spare that switch, Achmed,” Nabil called back from the lead position where he played the flashlight along the slope rising ahead of them. “Getting there second is as good as not getting there at all.”
I know that, Achmed thought and swatted the donkey’s flanks with greater vigor.
He and his brother panted as they pulled and drove the reluctant beast up the incline into the craggy foothills below the high wilderness.