Ivanhoe
Published: February 19th, 2009
By: Shelly Reuben

Ivanhoe

Other children, I am told, are brought up listening to stories about Cats in Hats or animals named Piglet and Phooh. Not so Samuel Reuben’s children. Neither at home nor in his letters to us after we had left home.

September 21, 1970

My Dear Shelly:

This is the first letter to you since you left Chicago; I hope this find you well and happy. A famous philosopher once wrote that “The world desires to know what a man can do, not what he knows.” Last week my brother Meyer came to Chicago from Miami Beach. Yesterday he spent the afternoon here and told us about his travels and experiences in Hong Kong, Tokyo and the Far East. It would have been nice for you to have swapped stories about your different travels – but maybe next time.

“Vivae ... ma non Troppa Presto” which as you well know means “Lively ... But not too quickly.” I was in a downtown hardware store when I saw an Italian man and his wife waiting to get a package wrapped, and I could not resist saying it to him, just to see if my Italian was any good. The Italian turned to me and replied, “Not so fast! Watt-sa de hurry, man.”

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There were a few exchanges of conversation between the graceful Lady Rowena and the beautiful Rebecca in the tale of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott:

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