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A devoted girlfriend, a humorless, high-strung, religiously observant young woman, earned their keep as a dental technician in Manhattan while Mark stayed home in their Brooklyn walk-up and wrote the biblically inspired poems that not even the Jewish magazines would publish, interminable poems about how David had wronged his son Absalom and how Isaac had wronged his son Esau and how Judah had wronged his brother Joseph and about the curse of the prophet Nathan after David sinned with Bathsheba-poems that, in one grandiosely ill-disguised way or another, harked back to the idée fixe on which Markie had staked everything and lost everything.
Una novia abnegada, una joven muy religiosa, sin sentido del humor y muy nerviosa, ganaba lo suficiente como técnico dental en Manhattan para mantenerlos a los dos, mientras Mark permanecía en casa, en su piso sin ascensor de Brooklyn, donde escribía los poemas de inspiración bíblica que ni siquiera le publicaba la revista judía, unos poemas interminables sobre la injusticia que David le hizo a su hijo Absalón, la que le hizo Isaac a su hijo Esaú, la que le hizo Judá a su hermano José y la maldición del profeta Nathan después de que David pecara con Betsabé, unos poemas que, de una u otra manera, con una pomposidad mal disimulada, volvían a la idea fija por la que Markie lo había apostado y perdido todo.
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