1749

You fell asleep. You were in a coma?" "I was asleep for a long time. A very long time. Hundreds of years. When I awoke I was a youth, much as you see me now. There was this huge commotion occurring. I was in a market square in Jerusalem, and then I saw a man carrying a huge beam of wood tied to his back. He stumbled and fell. Then I saw a dark man. African, I think, being shoved over to where the man had dropped the piece of wood. He was made to pick it up and carry it for him the rest of the way. There was a lot of shouting. angry and rude shouts and gestures. And there was the sound of women weeping. I followed them outside the gates of the city...