Q AND A

Q - You have agreed to appear with my on this special broadcast going out all over the lunar and sonar world.

A. Yes that's true even though I lead a solitary life once and awhile I will take a series of questions and answers.

Q. Some among the intelligentsia have compared your plays with Beckett and your poetry to Breton.

A. Well French is the language of writers, of beauty, even of artifice, just as the Hebrews gave us a a prophetic voice from heaven and the Greeks gave as oracles for our voice on earth so
the French applied themselves to language and literature in our world culture.

Q. Are there any animals that you resemble?

A. Well like the right whale, I suddenly surface, then appear to a few, then disappear and all that is left is memory or perhaps a photo shoot.

Q. Any minerals?

A. I'll have mineral water and a lemon. Thank you.

Q. How do you begin your day.

A. Usually with a Bach cantata or playing a Bach solo. There is something in the contrapuntal and spiritual that starts my day like a psalm of the poet David I begin to praise. Then I have and receive communion in the elements for the whole world.

Q. Any favorite psalms?

A. I cannot play favorites with the One higher than I but have climbed the rings of Jacob's ladder as Buber asks and Berdyaev has even suggested that realities are really symbols in reaching for meaning in our divine cosmos.

Q. You never wanted public acclaim?

A. The public only want publicity, and never satiated until they make mince meat out of their subject hence our celebrity culture is in a desert searching for an oasis in life which prefers a dessert more than any other repast and who can blame them.

Q. What are your worldly regrets?

A. My world being an oyster? You interviewers keep at it until we clam up. I will say Europe will never recover culturally since its abandonment of the Jews, there are a handful of film directors like Fassbender who gave us something to ponder but imagine the German cinema before fascism took over. It's the same in all the arts. Fascism by whatever name is what it is called has caused the destruction of life, of creativity. I have written many plays on German-Jewish themes for their relationship is an indicator of much of social , political and cultural significance for Europe and the world and is a fascinating topic for the generations to come.

Q.  You have seen the ignorance of prejudice, racism?

A.  Yes and it leads a society to ill will. That's what Faulkner knew in the American South and Ralph Ellison in the North. Hence Faulkner knew only a spiritual bond will last between people of all races. I marched with Dr. King in D.C. hoping that numbers would help in an exodus of freedom and saddened to see racism and antisemitism rise up especially these days by jealous and zealous people who really in their heart know better of the healing that needs to be genuinely expressed . Yet there are people of good will who will think better of others than only of themselves. I rejoice in good Samaritans as well. Poetry has a concept of community and spirituality. It is good to see poets expressing love for humanity and for individuals and souls of their spiritual fathers and mothers who gave their lives and world for an age of peace.

 Q.  Do you believe it will arrive?

 A. No doubt. It is well on its way.

 Q. Thank you.