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Amos Oz
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CONTENTS
1. PROMISE AND GRACE
2. FIMA GETS UP FOR WORK
3. A CAN OF WORMS
4. HOPES OF OPENING A NEW CHAPTER
5. FIMA GETS SOAKED IN THE DARK IN THE POURING RAIN
6. AS IF SHE WERE HIS SISTER
7. WITH THIN FISTS
8. A DISAGREEMENT ON THE QUESTION OF WHO THE INDIANS REALLY ARE
9. "THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE COULD TALK ABOUT, COMPARE"
10. FIMA FORGIVES AND FORGETS
11. AS FAR AS THE LAST LAMPPOST
12. THE FIXED DISTANCE BETWEEN HIM AND HER
13. THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
14. DISCOVERING THE IDENTITY OF A FAMOUS FINNISH GENERAL
15. BEDTIME STORIES
16. FIMA COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE IS STILL A CHANCE
17. NIGHTLIFE
18. "YOU'VE FORGOTTEN YOURSELF"
19. IN THE MONASTERY
20. FIMA IS LOST IN THE FOREST
21. BUT THE GLOWWORM HAD VANISHED
22. "I FEEL GOOD WITH YOU JUST LIKE THIS"
23. FIMA FORGETS WHAT HE HAS FORGOTTEN
24. SHAME AND GUILT
25. FINGERS THAT WERE NO FINGERS
26. CHILI
27. FIMA REFUSES TO GIVE IN
28. IN ITHACA, ON THE WATER'S EDGE
29. BEFORE THE SABBATH
30. AT LEAST AS FAR AS POSSIBLE
Translated from the Hebrew by
NICHOLAS DE LANGE
A HARVEST BOOK
A HELEN AND KURT WOLFF BOOK
HARCOURT, INC.
Orlando Austin New York San Diego London
Copyright © 1991 by Amos Oz and
Maxwell-Macmillan-Keter Publishing Ltd.
English translation copyright © 1993 by Nicholas de Lange
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Translation of The Third Condition by Amos Oz, originally
published in Israel in 1991.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Oz, Amos.
[Matsav ha-shelishi. English]
Fima/Amos Oz: translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas
de Lange.—1st ed.
p. cm.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
ISBN 978-0-15-189851-0
ISBN 978-0-15-600143-4 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PJ5054.O9M3513 1993
892.4'36—dc20 92-44200
Designed by Lori J. McThomas
Printed in the United States of America
First Harvest edition 1994
N M L K J I H G
CONTENTS
1
PROMISE AND GRACE / [>]
2
FIMA GETS UP FOR WORK / [>]
3
A CAN OF WORMS / [>]
4
HOPES OF OPENING A NEW CHAPTER / [>]
5
FIMA GETS SOAKED IN THE DARK
IN THE POURING RAIN / [>]
6
AS IF SHE WERE HIS SISTER / [>]
7
WITH THIN FISTS / [>]
8
A DISAGREEMENT ON THE QUESTION
OF WHO THE INDIANS REALLY ARE / [>]
9
"THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE
COULD TALK ABOUT, COMPARE" / [>]
10
FIMA FORGIVES AND FORGETS / [>]
11
AS FAR AS THE LAST LAMPPOST / [>]
12
THE FIXED DISTANCE BETWEEN
HIM AND HER / [>]
13
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL / [>]
14
DISCOVERING THE IDENTITY OF A
FAMOUS FINNISH GENERAL / [>]
15
BEDTIME STORIES / [>]
16
FIMA COMES TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT THERE IS STILL A CHANCE / [>]
17
NIGHTLIFE / [>]
18
"YOU'VE FORGOTTEN YOURSELF" / [>]
19
IN THE MONASTERY / [>]
20
FIMA IS LOST IN THE FOREST / [>]
21
BUT THE GLOWWORM HAD VANISHED / [>]
22
"I FEEL GOOD WITH YOU
JUST LIKE THIS" / [>]
23
FIMA FORGETS WHAT HE
HAS FORGOTTEN / [>]
24
SHAME AND GUILT / [>]
25
FINGERS THAT WERE NO FINGERS / [>]
26
CHILI / [>]
27
FIMA REFUSES TO GIVE IN / [>]
28
IN ITHACA, ON THE WATER'S EDGE / [>]
29
BEFORE THE SABBATH / [>]
30
AT LEAST AS FAR AS POSSIBLE / [>]
1. PROMISE AND GRACE
FIVE NIGHTS BEFORE THE SAD EVENT, FIMA HAD A DREAM WHICH he recorded at half past five in the morning in his dream book, a brown notebook that always lay beneath an untidy heap of old newspapers and magazines on the floor at the foot of his bed. In this book Fima had made it his habit to write down, in bed, as the first pale lines of dawn