Arnold Zwicky's Blog

I am late for the Rosh Hashanah / New Year train; my life is overfull, but I press on, with brevity to the max:

5787 Shana Tovah!

And then my free-associating mind excavates this passionate protestation:

I am not a number! I am a free man!

(from the 1967 British tv series The Prisoner)

Two more turns of the associative screw: I have had female friends named Tovah and also Shana (Shana with accented vowel [e], rather than [a]).

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