Friday 23 July 2010

The End -

Shortly after immigrating, a trader from Warsaw was given a field in the Yehuda Clan district, as a loan and for safekeeping. He planted an apple orchard and came, in thirty years of apple growing, to appreciate pastoral life so much that he said he'd developed a sense of belonging to the land which actually meant a sense that the land belonged to him. This farmer then sold what he had come to call his field to a developer because, as he put it, "In the end, all must bend before greed."

.. from "Picnic Grounds a novel in fragments" by Oz Shelach ISBN 0-87286-419-7