He has been renewed by this experience, but his faith and courage will need to be tested these are virtues the Hanging Man must display. This is not to say that Pernath has reached a state of perfection when he sees himself reflected in the tarot card. Upon hearing the verbal tale of the Golem for the first time The story of the Golem as related by Zwakh passed through my mind, and suddenly I recognized a connection of infinite mystery and magnitude between that legendary room without an entrance, which the unknown was supposed to inhabit, and my own significant dream. Goldsmith says that the Hanged Man is a symbol of “renewal and salvation” the man on the rope passes through trials of “courage” and to achieve blissful state of freedom from desire.” Pernath, very soon after reading the Ibbur, begins to allude to himself in terms of the Aleph. After finishing the letter, Pernath reacts with joy, thrilled to be of use to someone: empty life quite suddenly had been filed by something some substance that was rich and glowing. Upon reading the letter, Pernath comes across the word ‘father' and is able to remember, briefly, the face of his own father before the image fades. Yet this despair is soon cured by another near-miraculous surprise-a letter from a long-forgotten childhood friend, begging his assistance. When he speaks to people, he is often misunderstood he doesn't tell stories, but simply asks questions-he is feeling his way through the world as if he were in a dark corridor.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 81: Austrian Fiction Writers, 1875-1913. Golem in Literature, Film, and Stage.” 2002. He has been perfected through the conflict of the written and the spoken word. Pernath is now more than simply a Hanging Man, a creature without body that exists in cards and alphabets he is more than the Golem, a lump of flesh, mute and without speech. so it is clear immediately that Pernath has already begun to morph into a written image. Pernath's appearance has been described by his friends as that of an old-fashioned French aristocrat, with his slender figure and pointed beard.” (Golem, p.

Seemed to have been clumsily painted in water-color by the hand of a child and represented the Hebrew letter Aleph, in the form of a man dressed in Frankish fashion, his grey peaked beard cut short, his left arm raised on high, while the other pointed downwards.” (Golem, p.

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