![]() "This book is set in Electra, a Linotype face designed by W. If Thou dost not keep Thy Covenant, then neither will I keep that Promise, and it is all over, we are through being Thy chosen people, Thy peculiar treasure." (The Rebbe of Kotzk)Ī Note on the Type reads on pg. "Master of the Universe, send us our Messiah, for we have no more strength to suffer. ![]() A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us." (Franz Kafka) ![]() But what we must have are those books which come up on us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. ![]() The jacket design of The Promise was created by Paul Bacon as noted on the jacket cover. ![]()
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