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 | | Actually they agree with Feuerbach's dictum that man ist was er isst, man is what he eats (as in ess, ess, mein kind) while the truth is man isst was erist, man eats what he is. The economists have put the market in the place of the delicatessen. |
 | | In truth they all follow their false messiah, Freud, who was secretly in the pay of, yes, the Manischewitz people again, who out of economic motives wanted to spread the appeal of their products beyond the Jews and turned to the psychologist for help. |
 | | So Freud, for popularity's sake, interpreted the latke, the male, Maccabean food, as in its circular form symbolic of the male goalI need not elaborate on this lascivious suggestion; and the hamantashthe joyous token of Esther's success, the female triumphhe explained by means of its angularity, its pointiness. |
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