I noticed that the Jew would be utterly oblivious to what had occured the previous day, and he would start once again by repeating his former absurdities, as if nothing had happened. Should you become indignant and remind him of yesterday's defeat, he pretended astonishment and could not remember anything, except that on the previous day he had proved that his statements were right. Sometimes I was dumbfounded. I'm not sure what amazed me more "‚Äú the abundance of their verbiage or the artful way in which they dress up their falsehoods. I gradually came to hate them.