“There are things I admired, but it is fundamentally a depressed story. Every time someone tells a story you undermine the climax.’ He also pointed to the appearance of a large black dog at the kibbutz shaking snow off its fur, which makes a little girl scream. He wrote in the margin, ‘This is you!’ I didn’t mean to include the black dog as a symbol of depression. I wanted to respond, ‘But it’s an image I included randomly, something I saw in life! It just stuck in my mind, this big dog I saw shaking its fur and a little girl screaming in surprise!”