Haifa again, September 1975

Dotty,

You don't know how glad I am they you're over there in your Wawel and that you've been spared the horror that's been happening to me. Just imagine being in your husband's bed, making love to the person you love, and being nibbled and kissed by somebody else. Just imagine making love to your man, and all the time on your stomach you feel the welt of a wound, which has come between you and your love like a foreign limb. There lies and will always lie between Isaac and me a green-eyed, bearded Saracen! And he will respond to my every move before Isaac, because he's closer to my body than Isaac. And mind you, this Saracen is no invention! The beast is left-handed and prefers my left breast to my right! It's horrible, Dotty! You don't love Isaac the way I do, so maybe you can tell me how to explain it all to him .I left you in Poland and came here because of Isaac, only to discover in his arms a green-eyed monster who awakens at night, bites with a toothless mouth, and is hard even when Isaac isn't. Isaac sometimes makes me have an orgasm with this Arab! If you ever need him, just call! He'll come, he always can. . . .

Our wall clock, Dotty, is fast this autumn, and in the spring it will be slow. . . .