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Plans

This afternoon I visited my mother.
She offered me raspberries and asked: “So what are your plans?”

“Proposing to you,” I answered.

“Cut the crap,” she said.

“I’m serious,” I said. “I would like to stay together with you forever.”

Her face lightened up. She said: “But that’s possible without marriage.”


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Arnon
Do you ever regret living so far away from your family?
said Sasja Mirskikh 10/10/2009 02:51 • x
How did the conversation continue?
said bert hesper 10/10/2009 07:03 • x
Hesper
I started eating my raspberries.
said Arnon Grunberg 10/10/2009 08:41 • x
motherhood
Arnon
When small children say 'I stay with you for the rest of my life'
mothers smile, happy, moved.
When a daughter of 26 tells her mother 'I stay with you for the rest of my life', the mothers doesn't smile, she is worried.
When a man of 37 ... her face lightens up.
Raspberries are very healthy - lots and lots of vitamine C.
said vera m 10/10/2009 11:15 • x
Grammar
@Vera
Mothers don't smile; a mother doesn't...

@Mr Grunberg
Do you have any favorite fruit (including the forbidden ones)?
Also bearing Oedipus in mind here.
said bert hesper 10/10/2009 12:31 • x
Arnon
Today, just an hour ago, I had raspberries with Ewa M. , in Krakow, not in Wroclaw. She also had raspberries. Ewa , who does not read your blog, nor doesn't she know the language of your blog, said: 'Arnon being the man he is should have children, for the sake of humanity.' Then I went to the internetcafe and read today's and yesterday's blog.
said karol l. 10/10/2009 17:57 • x
Grammar
@Karol
Please: NOR DOES she know....
said bert hesper 10/10/2009 20:30 • x
Today I was taking a piss in the toilet that's closest to my kitchen. I heard my mother walking through the hallway and for the first time in my life I thought "Would she ever fantasize about my penis?" I had to stop pissing after that.
said Dens Powells 10/10/2009 22:43 • x
Karol
Who is Ewa M?
said Arnon Grunberg 11/10/2009 10:59 • x
Hesper
I love raspberries, peaches, cherries, clementines and blueberries.
said Arnon Grunberg 11/10/2009 11:01 • x
Arnon
Ewa M. was once my landlady in this city. After me buying a piece of Gruyere cheese instead of a piece of much cheaper Polish cheese, she stopped being my landlady and for a while even stopped being a good friend. Now we are friends again and for a few days in the year she is also again my landlady. Everytime we meet her second, third and fourth questions are: how is Arnon, where is he and does he already has a child. And now she really wants to read 'Our pope'. I'm glad that I can let her read 'Our pope' in Polish.
said karol l 11/10/2009 15:14 (Updated 15:16) • x
Bert
Thanks for your correction and sorry for my bad grammar.
said karol l 11/10/2009 15:49 • x
Arnon
Laura has nearly the same taste in fruit. She nearly overdosed on blueberries this summer.
said Oscar Wilde 11/10/2009 17:39 • x
Oscar
Did she throw up?
said Arnon Grunberg 12/10/2009 12:44 • x
Arnon
She smiled gleefully.
said Oscar Wilde 13/10/2009 15:04 • x
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