{"id":2902,"date":"2016-09-10T16:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/write4publish.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2021-07-04T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T14:09:25","slug":"visiting-ein-gedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anneskyvington.com.au\/visiting-ein-gedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Ein Gedi"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was drawn to the exotic name Ein Gedi, when coming across it in my brother’s first novel set partly in Israel. Then in a friend’s writing based on a poem by Ted Hughes from “Folktale”, part of\u00a0 Hughes’ collection entitled Capriccio<\/em>.\u00a0 Hughes refers obliquely to the last of the leopards of Ein Gedi in the following excerpt, which suggests via exotic imagery that he is enslaved by dangerous passions. Hughes is writing here about his fraught relationship with Assia Wevill, a flamboyant European who settled in Israel for a time after the War.\u00a0 What he wanted
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWas the gold, black-lettered pelt
\nOf the leopard of Ein Gedi.
\nShe wanted only the runaway slave.
\n(From Folktale by Ted Hughes)<\/em><\/p>\n