Grandpa Alexander once said: “They think in the future it is going to be so simple, a boy will be able to go up to a girl and just ask for it, or maybe the girls won’t even wait to be approached, but will go and ask the boys for it, like asking for a glass of water.”
Shortsighted Uncle Betsalel said with polite anger: “Isn’t this sheer Bolshevism, to trample on every secret, every mystery? To turn our whole life into a glass of lukewarm water?”
— Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
