The Ministry of Special Cases (2007)
“It was on top of this that Lillian had thrown down the forms.
“Do you see what’s being visited upon us?” Lillian said.
Kaddish took up a page and could see, as had the policeman, where the ghost of a name was still visible.
“It’s just punishment,” Lillian said. “All those Benevolent Self bodies buried in no-name graves. And for us the name is all we have left. That job is a curse,” she said. “You brought this on our house.”
Lillian had never indulged such hopelessness, not even, Kaddish was sur...e, in her thoughts.
“It’s only a bit of stone chipped away,” he said. “That’s all that’s been done.”
“With his first words, you two started your first fight. Really, though, I didn’t believe you hated him back. I thought it was aggravation. I thought you fought from sadness. Now I know better, Kaddish. You did this. You brought a curse on our house and then you opened the door. You wanted it and you got your wish.”
She couldn’t know that—from what he most didn’t believe in, from her world of curses and superstitions, of spilled salt and stepped-over legs—there was one thing Kaddish held true.MoreLess
“Do you see what’s being visited upon us?” Lillian said.
Kaddish took up a page and could see, as had the policeman, where the ghost of a name was still visible.
“It’s just punishment,” Lillian said. “All those Benevolent Self bodies buried in no-name graves. And for us the name is all we have left. That job is a curse,” she said. “You brought this on our house.”
Lillian had never indulged such hopelessness, not even, Kaddish was sur...e, in her thoughts.
“It’s only a bit of stone chipped away,” he said. “That’s all that’s been done.”
“With his first words, you two started your first fight. Really, though, I didn’t believe you hated him back. I thought it was aggravation. I thought you fought from sadness. Now I know better, Kaddish. You did this. You brought a curse on our house and then you opened the door. You wanted it and you got your wish.”
She couldn’t know that—from what he most didn’t believe in, from her world of curses and superstitions, of spilled salt and stepped-over legs—there was one thing Kaddish held true.MoreLess
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