I’m really proud of this piece that I translated by Yosel Cutler, a perfect Yiddish literary figure to run in an “anti literary magazine” like @publishedbyjake.bsky.social !
@jonathandubow.bsky.social"Spinoza, or my grandpa, it would seem, once said that a blind man walks as easily inside a mine as a sighted one. And I’ll tell you what, Mister Cutler: The philosopher who sought out truth in the daylight with a lantern was also a real chump."
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From Merrily We Go A-Wrong: My Philosophical Laundryman
The joke’s not funny if I have to explain it to you.