Parallel story of Saul and Shabbatai Tzvi to create a single narrative that turns the conversion of the latter into an act of secret heroism, frame the whole story as being told by Monsieur Chouchani as a commentary to the story of Isaac’s celebration by his father, to a street urchin called Avram in Paris 1945, revealing to him that the secret of the story is not helplessness and confusion, but the potential of every soul to accept the greatest of missions, skip forward 10 years to epilogue when the man who was an urchin is at a crux choice but doesn’t believe it could matter. Tell the reader that he hasn’t chosen yet, and that time is a circle (whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere) although we shall not see it. [ala La Borges – could start a story with a preface, that tells the story of a boy who is at crux too, and smashes idols in father’s store]
