"'You're
not getting enough air with that woman. You look as if you're
suffocating. Your tissues aren't getting any oxygen. She'll give you
cancer.'
'Oh', I said. 'She may think she's offering me the
blessings of an American marriage. Real Americans are supposed to suffer
with their wives, and wives with husbands. Like Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln. It's the classic US grief, and a child of immigrants like me
ought to be grateful. For a Jew it's a step up.'"
Saul Bellow (1915-2005). Humboldt's Gift (1975). London: Penguin Books, 2008, p. 43
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