{"id":1074,"date":"2017-06-20T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/modern-jewish-past-times-story-ideas"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T08:20:51","slug":"modern-jewish-past-times-story-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/06\/20\/modern-jewish-past-times-story-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Jewish past-times, story ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parallel story of Saul and Shabbatai Tzvi<\/em> 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\u2019s 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\u2019t believe it could matter. Tell the reader that he hasn\u2019t chosen yet, and that time is a circle (whose centre<\/a> is everywhere and circumference nowhere) although we shall not see it. [ala La Borges \u2013 could start a story with a preface, that tells the story of a boy who is at crux too, and smashes idols in father\u2019s store]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s celebration by his father, to a street urchin called Avram in Paris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,154,167,114],"tags":[248],"metadata":[156],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-google-drive","category-judaism","category-story","tag-borges","metadata-shais-editorial-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1706,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/10\/17\/the-writing-of-the-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":1074,"position":0},"title":"The Writing of the God","author":"Pala","date":"October 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: This is Shai's first dedicated write-up relating to Jorge Luis Borges. 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