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Extraction Summary
5
People
1
Organizations
2
Locations
2
Events
2
Relationships
6
Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Manuscript / memoir draft (house oversight committee evidence)
File Size:
1.95 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page from a manuscript or memoir, marked with a House Oversight Bates stamp. The text blends neuroscience terminology with religious mysticism, detailing the narrator's childhood interactions with a Rabbi and a specific 'tenth summer' sexual awakening which the author conflates with religious transformative experiences and ancient mythology.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Narrator | Author |
The person writing the first-person account of childhood, religious study, and sexual awakening.
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| Rabbi Isadore Kliegfeld | Tutor |
Described as the 'Jewish guru and Hebraic tutor' of the narrator's childhood.
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| William James | Author |
Author of 'Varieties of Religious Experience', read by the narrator.
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| Shu | Deity |
Egyptian God mentioned in a creation myth found in the Book of the Dead.
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| Tefnut | Deity |
Egyptian God mentioned in a creation myth found in the Book of the Dead.
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Organizations (1)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday school |
Where the narrator read Psalm 23 regularly.
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Timeline (2 events)
Childhood
Nighttime Hebrew letter meditations discussed with Rabbi Kliegfeld.
Unknown
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
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Location of the narrator's first sexual experience during their tenth summer.
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Where the narrator found the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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Relationships (2)
Refers to him as 'The Jewish guru and Hebraic tutor of my childhood'.
Mentions 'my father's well warn copy' of a book and 'my father's library'.
Key Quotes (6)
"I learned that it is comforting to divide an unknown whole into two or more unknowable parts."Source
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Quote #1
"He said that I had been given a blessing, in Yiddish, a nachas."Source
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Quote #2
"In my tenth summer... I evoked a pleasurably urgent and yawning feeling that began in the lower part of my abdomen and back."Source
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Quote #3
"Was this what he meant by a transformative experience?"Source
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Quote #4
"It contained a creation myth of two Gods in which 'rubbing with my fist, my heart came into my mouth and I spat forth Shu and Tefnut.'"Source
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Quote #5
"Psalm 23... began to make me wonder about the meanings of '...rod and staff that comforts...' and what was meant by '...my cup runneth over.'"Source
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Quote #6
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