Apocryphal GR

[jporter]

"Is God really Jewish?" asks Heinz Rippenstoss.

In the official version of GR, the section ends there with the familiar
film sprocket separator. But there are rumors, surfacing from time to time,
in the more obscure and unofficial campus literary reviews, of apocryphal
versions of GR, rarely seen these days, if at all, which continue on for a
line or two more, in various places, i.e., additional text, conveniently
omitted from the original.

I may have been only dreaming- memory is such a trickster and sprite- but
in the dorm room of a co-ed who'd kindly lent me floor space, on one or
another cross country ramble in the early seventies, dog tired from the
road, and just before I was overtaken by a well deserved sleep, I believe I
may have encountered such an apocryphal version of GR. The following is my
best recollection of what I might have read in that apocryphal text:

        'Herr Rathenau? Could you tell me one thing?' It is Heinz Rippenstoss
        the irrepressible Nazi wag and gadabout. The sitters begin to giggle,
        and Peter Sascha to return to his room. Is God really Jewish?'
        [end standard edition].

        ...comes a voice, either Sascha, wiping forehead with a hanky,
        or perhaps the vacated room itself: " Are we really all Golems?"
        [end apocryphal version].

jody