All have a circularity that suggests entrapment, a major theme of Jackson's later works, but they also hold up as spell-binding stories in their own right.
The tie binding the stories, with a certain jaw-dropping purity of intention, is that the protagonists share the same first name.
It consists of three overlapping narratives, all set in contemporary Budapest, with some coincidences of character, location and incident; but it's hard at times not to feel that the underlying rationale binding these stories together is a simple pun.
We spend a lot of time with the characters -- Muzaffer's young nephew, Ali, who walks around with an egg in his pocket, completes the ensemble -- before we have an inkling of the story binding.
No where does it talk about binding to a creation story.
A bouncing disco soundtrack is the binding agent for myriad stories of wild times on the West Side piers, the Roman baths, and fabled New York dance spots like the Loft and Paradise Garage.
This year's show finds Simmons binding the idiocy to a story, about a man summoning the courage to proposition his "bus crush".
During this time of year, the story of the binding of Issac is read in Temple.
More important, Mount Moriah is the site of the "Foundation Stone," the rock where Abraham tied his son Isaac in the biblical story of the binding of Isaac.
Uri Herscher remembers the day 55 years ago when he heard the rabbi at an Oakland synagogue telling the biblical story of the binding of Isaac.
