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he brought a [[strikethrough]] big [[/strikethrough]] reproduction of a painting of Queen Isabella and Columbus, perhaps by Rubens. Eventually he brought books Lenore would read, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and her first literary passion, Maeterlink. But her first impressions of literary and musical form and solemn heightened feeling were undoubtedly [[strikethrough]] set [[/strikethrough]] gained in the Synagogue. It was an orthodox family with all that implies in the sense of patriarchal law over belief and matriarchal dominion over the household. Religion was the tie that bound this family, literally rootless, to ancient times. 

I went to services at the Synagogue, partly because it was expected of me. But there must have been something beyond, because I wasn't forced to go, and my younger sister did not. So some part of me must have responded. On the High Holy days you fasted. Yom Kippur. I fasted. I din't shortcut. I was religious. I observed. 

And then in the house there were plenty of Hebrew books, Bibles, the books you took to the Synagogue. I was going to Hebrew School and working with those books. I don't remember clearly, but there may have been gold margins and big letters. Today, my orange and alizarin orange is my involvement with manuscripts and illuminations. Way, way back my involvement with them began.  

[[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Somewhere Krasner saw and was excited by ancient scriptural texts with decorative illuminations; later on, this taste was reinforced by Persian manuscripts with Arabic calligraphy, and Eventually as she says the love she felt for those compositions with streaks of color blazing through grey-black fields of [[strikethrough]] linear script [[/strikethrough]] handwriting would come out in her own work. 

At the time, she was [[strikethrough]] fierce [[/strikethrough]] pugnacious in defense of what she believed. In Highschool, she refused to sing a Christmas carol because it meant declaring Jesus was her Lord, [[strikethrough]] and she would not [[/strikethrough]]. Some years later on the other hand, events had and [[strikethrough]] combined to [[strikethrough/]] destroyed her [[strikethrough]] faith [[/strikethrough]] orthodoxy. She was [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] an art student on a high of German philosophy. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer [[strikethrough]] and Max [[strikethrough]] showed her the way to go. She [[strikethrough]] came [[/strikethrough]] arrived [[strikethrough]] into her family's house [[/strikethrough]] home on a Sabbath when [[strikethrough]] the old people [[/strikethrough]] her parents were sitting having tea with a friend, "I came in like a charging banshee" and declared she was through with religion. There were, as she sees it now,

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