The Shade of Shylock is conjured up upon the usurer’s ouija board whenever one accuses him of being what he is. In years past, Shylock was summoned as a semitic scape goat, to be butchered in place of the Christian banker. But today he is used to accuse the accuser of being anti-semitic himself. And so the Christian shylock is eternally occluded, shroud…
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