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Rudner, Lawrence Sheldon. Memory's Tailor. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.(note to self, page 290)"He was not the same man. Or, he was more than one man, or woman. Maybe the months of practice--of travel and loneliness, of clothing sewn and artifacts deposited behind glass cases, of being lost in the marrow of lives imagined and relived-had made Berman into what he now was: mourner and storyteller, history's tinker, dancer and servant. Rabbi and teacher. Taking on the voices and the lives of the deceased who will never, ever appear in any book-not even this one-Alexandr Davidowich had, in voice and movement, become many people. He was what he was, so who was I to interfere? Who was I to break his concentration? Who was I to say, stop!"
