When Nathan couldn’t form a sentence for his stammering. When the school called home about Bernard’s behavior. When Jenny would refuse to engage in the feminine activities that Ruth thought a daughter should be eager to engage in: shopping, makeup, learning to bake, what Bernard would later refer to as the Great All-Night Nose Job War of 1998. These were a dybbuk in the works, a time when things went more wrong than mere physics and logic could account for.
