Fiddler in the Basement

The Felt Forum has had enough: at least five thousand. Even 35th Street is sold out now, SRO. It sounds like they booked in a dirge. Hebrew is the premier language of complaint: it moans, it gripes. And Hassidim have an innate rocking motion: so many human metronomes: their life is super-rhythmic, meditative: they will hold sway tonight.

One advantage of being Hassidic: you know what you’re gonna wear tomorrow. Black suit, black hat, black footgear: somewhere the Talmud must expatiate on lint. Also corrective lenses: this is a myopic sect; most are under glass. And they outhair Hair: beard and sidelock: Gillette would do a Sweeney Todd on its corporate throat.

DK

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D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.

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The Felt Forum has had enough: at least five thousand. Even 35th Street is sold out now, SRO. It sounds like they booked in a dirge. Hebrew is the premier language of complaint: it moans, it gripes. And Hassidim have an innate rocking motion: so many human metronomes: their life is super-rhythmic, meditative: they will hold sway tonight.

One advantage of being Hassidic: you know what you’re gonna wear tomorrow. Black suit, black hat, black footgear: somewhere the Talmud must expatiate on lint. Also corrective lenses: this is a myopic sect; most are under glass. And they outhair Hair: beard and sidelock: Gillette would do a Sweeney Todd on its corporate throat.

DK

About the Author

D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.