Proof that God is Male: He Won't Ask for Directions

Benya Krik, the gangster king of Odessa, explains that geography is destiny:

Aunt Pesya! ... If you want my life, you can have it, but everyone makes mistakes, even God! This weas a great mistake, Aunt Pesya! But didn't God Himself make a mistake when he settled the Jews in Russia so they could be tormented as if they were in hell? Wouldn't it have been better to have the Jews living in Switzerland, where they would've been surrounded by first-class lakes, mouintian air, and Frenchmen galore!

--Isaac Babel, "How Things Were Done in Odessa," 146-154, 152,
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel (trans. Peter Constantine 2002)