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"Understand …"

"If you want to stay here, you got to do like Mr. Gumbeiner says."

"Do-like-Mr.-Gumbeiner-says …"

"That's the way I like to hear a golem talk. Malka, give here the mirror from the pocketbook. Look, you
see your face? You see the forehead, what's written? If you don't do like Mr. Gumbeiner says, he'll wipe
out what's written and you'll be no more alive."

"No-more-alive …"

"That's right. Now, listen. Under the porch you'll find a lawnmower. Take it. And cut the lawn. Then
come back. Go."
"Go …" The figure shambled down the stairs. Presently the sound of the lawnmower whirred through the
quiet air in the street just like the street where Jackie Cooper shed huge tears on Wallace Beery's shirt
and Chester Conklin rolled his eyes at Marie Dressler.

"So what will you write to Tillie?" old Mr. Gumbeiner asked.

"What should I write?" old Mrs. Gumbeiner shrugged. "I'll write that the weather is lovely out here and
that we are both, Blessed be the Name, in good health."

The old man nodded his head slowly, and they sat together on the front porch in the warm afternoon
sun.



The End
Author Biography and Bibliography




Avram Davidson was one of the great masters of short fiction of the twentieth century, a
writer who won the major awards in the science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery genres—the
Hugo, Edgar, and World Fantasy Awards—while constantly pushing at the boundaries of those
genres. Davidson (1923–1993) published seventeen novels and wrote more than 200 stories
and essays during his lifetime. Among his best-known stories are "Or All the Seas with
Oysters," "The Necessity of His Condition," "The Affair at Lahore Cantonment," "The Golem,"
and "Naples," all collected in The Avram Davidson Treasury (Tor, 1998).

Davidson was born on April 23, 1923, in Yonkers, New York. He was educated in the local
public schools, and briefly studied anthropology at New York University before joining the U.S.
Navy in 1942. He served as a hospital corpsman, first with the Naval Air Corps, and then with
the Fifth Marines, and saw overseas duty in the South Pacific. He was in China at the time of
the Japanese surrender in September 1945. He continued his formal education after the war
but never took a degree. Davidson was in Palestine just before the creation of Israel in May
1948, and apparently served as a medic in the newly-formed Israeli armed forces, and then