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It was owed to him after all, hidden back wages written onto hides. Jacob is young and building a family and a fortune in equally robust arithmetic leaps. Rather than divide and conquer, he multiplies and prospers. The solution to Laban\u2019s duplicitous rhetoric is the irrefutable appeal to the visual. Words wend away from what they mean when Laban says one thing and does another. But a speckled sheep is a particularly convincing baa-ing bit of evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The depths of Jacob\u2019s story can be told as a skein of surfaces. \u00a0He would have known the sheepy, wooly, soft and scratchy feeling of a sheep\u2019s coat from the inside, his nervous sweat mingling with the promised dew from the birthright he sheared from his brother. There too words yield to a more senior sense; not sight, but its more archaic colleague, touch. But that old way of orienting in the void, when all is dark and there is no one to hear, leads Isaac to mistake his twins, blunting fatherhood\u2019s brand of insight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third in this triptych of surfaces; Joseph\u2019s coat, yet another lying bit of evidence. Here the material is not animal pelts of a particular pattern or coarseness but a piece of human craft, a coat meant to be worn to the world soaked with a goat\u2019s innards. The forensics are false, but Jacob, who knew how slippery speckles could be and how touch dissembles, failed to summon the requisite hermeneutics of suspicion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps Jacob\u2019s complicated brand of truth is founded on the insight that it always shares a skin with falsehood. 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