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What he has, he feels, is less writer's block than author's caution.
Martin Odum, to give the novel's confusing hero his most often used name, is an ex-C.I.A. operative who has, he feels, lost his real identity in the shuffle of "legends" — false identities, with carefully worked-out histories and trade skills, assumed for particular episodes of espionage.
He has, he feels, "a Jewish mind," a "Jewish intelligence," and that "what a Jew is has been made by the experience of 5,000 years, that's what shapes the Jewish sense of humor, that's what shaped Jewish pugnacity or tenaciousness".
But, because the kinds of insurance he could get on the individual market aren't as good as what he has, he feels tied to his job.
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Only now has he felt ready to publish.
Why has he felt obliged to quit?
"Only now has he felt strong enough to come forward.
Had he felt blackballed?
Had he felt physically vulnerable?
Never had he felt so helpless.
Never before had he felt so on stage.
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