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Dahlia Ravikovitch

Dahlia Ravikovitch is considered one of the foremost Israeli poetic voices of the twentieth century. She was born on November 18, 1936 in Ramat Gan, a Tel Aviv suburb. Her father Levy was an engineer and her mother Michal

Delight

by Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005)

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There did I know a delight beyond all delight,

And it came to pass upon the Sabbath day

As tree boughs reached for the sky with all their might.

Round and round like a river streamed the light,

And the wheel of the eye craved the sunwheel that day.

Then did I know a delight beyond all delight.

The heads of the bushes blazed, insatiable bright
Sunlight striking the waves, igniting the spray.
It would swallow my head like a golden orange, that light.

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The French poet Charles Cros is famous for almost inventing what device, only to be "beaten to the patent office" by Thomas Edison?

Answer

The phonograph. Cros submitted proposals to the French Academy of Sciences, but before he could create a working model, Edison had already perfected his version of the device.

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