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Article: I couldn't get the snake to eat the cake, but it seemed the cathad got my tongue
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- January 6, 1995
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Amos Kollek
Jerusalem Post
01-06-1995
Here I am, sitting in front of my pocketbook word processor, trying to write a literary masterpiece. Nothing much comes to mind. After two or three hours, I start to feel like an idiot, not to mention the fact that staring at the blank, gray screen is giving me a terrible migraine. So I switch the computer off.
In order to feel that I am, nevertheless, doing something constructive with my life, I start chanting the tongue-twister "a snake ate a steak" over and over, as fast as possible, like we used to when we were about six.
To my great surprise, I do this with remarkable success. In fact, I repeat the statement 20 times or so, faster than the ...