Arnon Grunberg

Infection

Dog

Thursday morning, Tramezzino (a sandwich shop) in Amsterdam.
Three women were discussing high schools and children.
Then out of the blue one of the women, she was wearing a cap, said: ‘I had to reattach a child's arm yesterday. A dog had bitten it off.’
The subject of puberty and high schools was gone.
Dogs killing babies was now the topic. The sun was shining, it was a beautiful morning.
Then the woman with the cap said: ‘If there’s no infection, the child will have two arms in the future.’

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