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Go to the Russian schools. he Catholic bishop in Damascus, the Muslim imarn in Cairo, and the Baptist president of Robert College in Istanbul. So as the summer passed, John Cullinane became less a Catho- lic and more a Jew, immersing himself in the Once someone had shoved such a bowl across a table and the sound echoed in his ears .

Then With trembling hands he took the rusty scissors and started to circum- cise himself. He shook his head as if loose things-ideas, memories- were floating therein, unconnected, and then he fell back in his chair and stared at the lake. Were we lucky! Cullinane said. This was the Jewish way of stating an age, derived from the promise of God as given in the Torah: Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.