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INTERVIEWER
The supernatural keeps cropping up in practically everything you write, particularly your short stories. Why this strong concern with the supernatural? Do you personally believe in the supernatural?
SINGER
Absolutely. The reason why it always comes up is because it is always on my mind. I don’t know if I should call myself a mystic, but I feel always that we are surrounded by powers, by mysterious powers, which play a great part in everything we are doing. I would say that telepathy and clairvoyance play a part in every love story. Even in business. In everything human beings are doing. For thousands of years people used to wear woolen clothes and when they took them off at night they saw sparks. I wonder what these people thought thousands of years ago of these sparks they saw when they took off their woolen clothes? I am sure that they ignored them and the children asked them, “Mother what are these sparks?” And I am sure the mother said, “You imagine them!” People must have been afraid to talk about the sparks . . . [but] we know now that they were real, and that what was behind these sparks was what drives our industry today.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Aldous Huxley, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, David Bergelson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A. M. Fuchs, Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Homer, Israel Joshua Singer, Leo Tolstoy, Aaron Zeitlin |
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