Braided story of life after the first Yom HaShichzur combined with What Right Have I’s past.
Themes:
- Masking/unmasking
- The actual effects of age from the inside
- Disability sys-side
- Community sys-side
- Judaism sys-side/post-Israel
Strand 1: WHRI tasked with outreach to older clades, both within her community and within the clade, as one who is a member of the community (subtext, later text, being that it’s because she’s so weird, it comes off as visibly struggling with age) Strand 2: Formative bits of WRHI’s past
Climax: WRHI confronts RFW about feeling gaslit about being crazy, but also comes to accept that she is just Like That in part because her identity has become cemented; talk with Ashes?; in the past, we learn TODO
Epigraph
Every reading of every poem, regardless of language, is an act of translation: translation into the reader’s intellectual and emotional life. As no individual reader remains the same, each reading becomes a different — not merely another — reading. The same poem cannot be read twice. (The poem continues in a state of restless change.)
— Eliot Weinberger
What Right Have I deals with HaShichzur following “Prophecies”.
Outline
- 001 — The first anniversary of the restoration, What Right Have I anxious on stage, listens to RFW give introduction, after which WRHI says Hagomel and introduces Yom HaShichzur. RFW catches her on the way back to her office to tell her she has been tasked with outreach to older clades specifically because she is the way she is
Notes
- Am Yisrael = the Jewish people who are the nation of Israel. Medinat Israel, the modern state, lost cohesion in the mid 21st century, and is no longer recognizable