![]() You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts"? What about the intent behind an action? Do you agree with "A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it.What do you think about the golem's willingness to accept another's decision to destroy her, or even to destroy herself? Can she be considered suicidal? Fatalistic? Pragmatic?. ![]() ![]() Could The Golem and the Jinni be considered a sort of "Adam & Eve" story? About creation, innocence, curiosity, and downfall?.What do you think of Rottfield's requests for his golem's personality?.The story has a dreamlike quality that I feared ruining through poor description. I had previously read this book and failed to review it simply because it was one of those books that I loved yet had difficult describing or quantifying. The Golem and the Jinni was the August pick for Virtual Speculation. As the golem named Chava and the jinni named Ahmed learn what it means to live as a human in a city they explore existential questions of human behavior and belief that are so alien to these creatures of myth. The setting is the New York of 1899, with flashes of the past lives that set the stage on which our actors perform, yet the novel has a feel of happening once upon a time. In overstated simplification, The Golem and the Jinni is a story about two improbable beings discovering themselves, and each other, in a time and a place where neither belong. ![]()
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