SLSL "the Wandering Jew"

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    He had a momentary, ludicrous vision of himself, Lardass Levine
    the Wandering Jew, debating on weekday evenings in strange and
    nameless towns with other Wandering Jews the essential problems
    of identity - not of the self so much as an identity of place
    and what right you really had to be any place. (49)

http://www.bartleby.com/81/17261.html

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/w/wandering_jew.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09121a.htm#10

Levine is quite obviously a sympathetic and likable character in the story.

Cf. 

    Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the singular
    point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose the Slothropite heresy had
    had the time to consolidate and prosper? Might there have been fewer
    crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas
    Iscariot? (_GR_ 556)

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