Arnon Grunberg

Bliss

Babysitter

This afternoon I was supposed to have lunch with a friend. It was a long time ago since we had seen each other and I was really looking forward to it.
This morning the friend told me she could not make it because the babysitter had cancelled.
My melancholy was on the march because of this and for some reason I was reminded of an evening in Romania during the writer’s conference when I played table tennis with a young Romanian author and her boyfriend.
Happiness should never be overestimated but playing table tennis is definitely a shortcut to, well let’s say bliss.