One of them went away from me, and I said, he has surely been torn to pieces. And I have not seen him since. The broken acknowledgment — he has surely been torn to pieces — is Jacob's twenty-two-year grief, stated in the presence of the son who is alive and listening. The application: the grief that has been held for twenty-two years is now being heard by the one who caused it and the one who was its subject. The moment is almost unbearable.

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