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A long dinner

Palinka

On Friday night I had dinner with Anna, a young woman I had met during the presentation of the Romanian translation of my novel “Blue Mondays”, the couple who helped me find a job as a masseur, and my companion.
We drank quite a lot of palinka and the next day the ladies decided to step into the river, while I had to prepare myself for another day as masseur.




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Mister Grunberg - what massage would you recommend might stop a persistent eye twitch (eyelid, that is to say)?
Tabatha
At Băile Herculane there is a spring with water that is supposedly very good for the eyes. I saw lots of people sprinkling this water on their eyes. I recommend you travel to Băile Herculane at your earliest convenience.
Sirens
The picture reminds me of the three sirens, singing to seduce and then rob men in 'O Brother where art thou' from the Coen Brothers.
For a while, two main characters also believe they've turned their friend into a toad, which turns out to be not true. (Thankfully, because the toad has by then been smashed dead against a tree by John Goodman, wearing an eyepad and being quitte tall, looking somehwat like a cyclops). This cyclops appears later in the movie to be a member of the Klu Klux Clan, illustrating that the Coen brothers' adaptation of the Odyssee is pretty loose.

On a different note: Eyelid twitching usually disappears without treatment. In the meantime, the following steps may help:

Get more sleep.
Drink less caffeine.
Lubricate your eyes with eye drops.

Call your primary care doctor or eye doctor (ophthalmologist) if:

Eyelid twitching does not go away within 1 week
Twitching completely closes your eyelid
Twitching involves other parts of your face
You have redness, swelling, or a discharge from your eye
Your upper eyelid is drooping

Or you could ofcourse follow Mr Grunberg's advice and go to Rumania.
The girl on the right looks like your friend ? (the woman formerly known as amante)
(Forgive me, I am very bad at recognizing faces, an old family ailment)
Bernard
You are right, that's Marieke, Arnon's Amante. She's very charming.
Mister Grunberg, thank you for you recommendation, I think I might try it in the near future, however most likely not in time to meet you there. M. Hordijk, thank you for your concern. It would seem the eye-twitch is here to stay. But luckily, there apparently is Baile Herculane.
Tabatha, I get a twitching eye too sometimes. It happens when I don't pay attention to being tired for a prolonged period of time.
Extra sleep always fixes this problem. I didn't know this before, but now I follow the sign... eye twitch = go to sleep like a bebe. It works.
Love
Love at first sight with the girl left on the picture, could this be the change that I was waiting for?
Veerle
She lives in Bucharest. Go and visit her at your earlest convenience.
@Mieke
Thanks!
@Hille L
Extra sleep is unfortunately not an option.