W.'s hair is very long now. It's a year since he last had it cut. Some of it falls in ringlets. It's his Jewishness, he tells me. He looks leonine, I tell him, like the lion of Judah.
If you're not going to be a thinker, you should at least look like a thinker, he says. And if you're not going to be religious, then you should at least look religious, that's what W. believes. Genuine thinking and genuine religious belief might follow looking like a genuine thinker and looking like a genuinely religious person.
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