to local place
Reverberations
as time twists on itself
and the vertical axes goes down
angels and women
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There is a dreamlike continuity between Jacob's dream, and his arrival in Haran. The introductory anaphora of "hene...ve-hine--behold...and behold"; the stone beneath his head is transformed into the stone that seals the well; the focus on place, here transformed into a local, specific placement rather than "the place"; the repeated word "return"--to return home, to return the stone to its proper place; the focus on day and its ending--the day disappearing, the day is yet high. The scene has a surreal quality of bringing the dream into the real world. Dream-like, people begin to transform one into the other--"Behold [Rachel] is Leah", and the time frames melt one into the other. Jacob's arrival echoes Eliezer's; his crying echoes Esau's...)
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