In his acknowledgements at the back of the book, Lerner says that he came across it in Giorgio Agamben’s The Coming Community, although it is, he writes, ‘typically attributed to Walter Benjamin’. Like any good Hassidic story, this one has a convoluted genealogy. Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.
And the clothes we wear in this world, those too we will wear there. Just as our room is now so it will be in the world to come where our baby sleeps now, there too it will sleep in the other world. The Hassidim tell a story about the world to come that says everything there will be just as it is here. Ben Lerner’s recent second novel, 10:04, carries the following epigraph:
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