Things Equal to the Same Thing: Not Equal to Each Other

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Buddy Becker lost his woman Sally Asher to a rabbi. Rabbi Paul Say. Buddy was a Jew. Buddy's woman Sally was a prostitute, from the depleted coal-hills of West Virginia. Both Buddy and the rabbi had met Sally when cruising the main acknowledged Baltimore hooker street for what men cruise hooker streets for. And Sally was a unique woman. The Rabbi Paul Say was a tormented man who, eventually, and not only because of his torment, came to find in himself a love for prostitute Sally Asher. Buddy Becker, the rabbi's competitor for Sally's love, is a hustler, but in a rather benevolent non-mercantile motif, and a reader who claims to have read Everything, from the ancient Greeks on through James Joyce. But hooker Sally Asher is different- She's special-her sentiments, her perceptions, her instinctive understandings, even her weaknesses. She may be the most honest and trustworthy of this unlikely trio. The rabbi's cruising for a prostitute had to do with embarrassment and inexperience and the painful contest between biology and religion, while Buddy Becker's cruising had to do with habit and spare time killing, and fun. But both men, afflicted by their warpings of weakness, fell in love with this unusual lost "hickabilly", who was, in her way, one strong woman, . . Emotional adulthood for hustler and for rabbi? Two marred men to be stirred and risen.