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502 Dream,2|                What do you think?" I recalled Cufi's words. Who is this
503 Dream,3|            can. I have to be here to receive a high-level delegation.
504 Sins,6 |           and cast the needle into a receptacle.~"It is going to hurt. The
505 Sins,5 |              the extractions, I will refer you to another doctor. He
506 Sins,2 |           ears, but I had no time to reflect on any ulterior meaning.~
507 Sins,5 |            The only thing which Anna refused to do was extract the molars.~"
508 Sins,1 |              vice-principal took the register and read out the first five
509 Dream,6|         awake, yet I felt a sense of release. I had nothing to take with
510 Sins,5 |           clinic. She cleaned all my remaining teeth and massaged my gums.
511 Dream,1|              old car, that Fiat Uno, remains parked out front. In the
512 Sins,4 |              would repeat his famous remark about biting only being
513 Dream,5|             the room to the other, I remembered the photo. It was there
514 Sins,6 |  mind-boggling pain. I groaned as he removed it and cast the needle into
515 Sins,4 |             was afraid that he would repeat his famous remark about
516 Sins,6 |             like a savage beast, and repeatedly thrust his pincers into
517 Sins,4 |          voice.~I mumbled my name in reply. She smiled and sat down
518 Dream,6|              none of the pedestrians resembled her. It was at nine-thirty
519 Sins,1 |              class was over and then return to the classroom. Aleks
520 Dream,7|                                 7.~I returned home the next day, filled
521 Sins,4 |            was confused. I wanted to reveal to my companion what I had
522 Sins,3 |            hurled: "I'll get them to rip all your molars out!"~He
523 Sins,6 |             me.~I sat down. The same ritual. Me with my mouth wide open,
524 Dream,6|       nothing, and strolled down the road with my hands in my pockets.
525 Sins,2 |         terms which degenerated into rococo. I blushed at what he'd
526 Dream,6|             of being in one of those romances where you wait and wait
527 Sins,1 |         other."~I got up. The others rose, too, and we proceeded into
528 Sins,4 |           and sat down on the little rotating stool in front of me.~"Now,
529 Dream,6|        breeze..." she replied with a rueful look.~I was still bewildered
530 Sins,1 |           breath and uttered:~"Let's run away!"~"OK," said Aleks
531 Dream,6|          passed by and greeted me in Russian with a "zdrastvuye." I smiled
532        | same
533 Sins,1 |         false teeth, he added: "Mens sana in corpore sano" which he
534 Sins,1 |         added: "Mens sana in corpore sano" which he hastened to translate
535 Dream,4|            head by a strap. He had a sash at his waist and was suitably
536 Sins,3 |            false teeth glittering in satisfaction. "You deserters! Now see
537 Sins,6 |           come out!" he cried like a savage beast, and repeatedly thrust
538 Sins,1 |              into. Maybe we had been saved.~
539 Dream,2|          problem," I replied, "I can scan it at my office. What format
540 Dream,5|               Alone, with my clothes scattered from one end of the room
541 Sins,3 |              else, aside from Aleks' screams as he sat down where I had
542 Dream,4|             to cut the throat of any sea captain who got in his way.
543 Dream,2|             me the photo. I took it, seemingly indifferent, and put it
544 Sins,4 |          chest and gave me an erotic sensation I had never experienced
545 Dream,7|              and I was home by about seven. I greeted everyone, had
546 Sins,6 |             growing numb and started shaking, having convulsions. I could
547 Dream,3|          groping around in the upper shelves of the clothes closet for
548 Sins,6 |             spewed out of my mouth.~"Shit!" he hissed loudly.~I turned
549 Sins,6 |              out of consciousness. I shivered and shook. My legs were
550 Sins,2 |         arranged to meet at a coffee shop near the office and, from
551 Dream,4|               which was the means of shortening the distance between us.~
552 Sins,5 |           fleshy, brushed against my shoulder. I began to tremble every
553 Sins,3 |       another planet.~"Sit down," he shouted. "Open your mouth! Cavities
554 Dream,2|            even seen her... until he showed me her photograph one fine
555 Sins,1 |           you, one after the other!"~Showing off his false teeth, he
556 Dream,6|              among them. She had not shown up. I took another look
557 Sins,4 |            about biting only being a sin for those with no teeth.~
558        | since
559 Sins,2 |              her hands in the nearby sink.~"And he's a real chicken!"
560 Sins   |                                  The sins of the bitten~(Mëkatet e
561 Dream,1|        parked out front. In the cafe sits Cufi with his moustache,
562 Sins,2 |             in a rather tragicomical situation. Most of my teeth - front
563 Dream,4|          weather, not a cloud in the sky, and by the strangely transparent
564 Sins,2 |             a terrible night, hardly sleeping a wink.~"Get to the dentist,
565 Sins,4 |            accident, but her breasts slid across my chest and gave
566 Sins,5 |             Not only did her breasts slide over my chest with increasing
567 Dream,4|           and... later... in a light slumber, I began to imagine that
568 Sins,4 |           Hiroshima," she continued, smiling again and sticking her instruments
569 Sins,2 |           thin woman appeared at the smoked-glass door.~"That's her," murmured
570 Dream,4|      vanguard of a battle. The empty socket was covered by a black leather
571 Sins,4 |                said the dentist in a soft voice.~I mumbled my name
572        | someone
573 Dream,1|           day. I am pretty sure that sooner or later I am going to have
574 Sins,5 |         expert." I had put my entire soul into her hands.~She continued
575 Sins,2 |          chewed his gum with all his sparkling, white teeth.~We arrived.
576 Sins,6 |             seemed to squeeze me and spasmodically contorted in one final act,
577 Dream,7|             you?"~"I'm fine. Nothing special. But I've decided to sell
578 Sins,2 |              chosen to hold the main speech at the National Debate on
579 Dream,4|              in his Fiat and, at the speed he was travelling, was likely
580 Dream,5|              the meeting, I remember spending my time thinking about where
581 Sins,6 |              little bit of something spewed out of my mouth.~"Shit!"
582 Sins,3 |            motor and felt a metallic sphere spinning in my open mouth.~
583 Dream,1|             can imagine, is my daily spiel before I bid him farewell
584 Sins,3 |           and felt a metallic sphere spinning in my open mouth.~My brain
585 Sins,5 |              to keep my teeth dry of spit. The torture continued.~
586 Sins,1 |            you took to go out to the sports field and to the girls'
587 Sins,6 |             below my lifeless belly. Spreading herself over me, she seemed
588 Sins,6 |       herself over me, she seemed to squeeze me and spasmodically contorted
589 Dream,3|              stood at the top of the staircase. "I just get more and more
590 Sins,6 |               I was growing numb and started shaking, having convulsions.
591 Dream,5|              from Tirana and am only staying for a short time, actually
592 Dream,4|          suitably armed: a dagger, a steel hook for boarding vessels,
593 Sins,4 |         continued, smiling again and sticking her instruments into my
594 Sins,6 |                my head, my heart, my stomach... everything. He stuck
595 Sins,4 |          down on the little rotating stool in front of me.~"Now, open
596 Sins,5 |                    5.~I told you the story of my childhood experience
597 Dream,4|         cloud in the sky, and by the strangely transparent atmosphere.
598 Dream,4|            the back of his head by a strap. He had a sash at his waist
599 Sins,2 |              In the midst of all the stress, as I was gobbling down
600 Sins,4 |              neck was also craned to study me, as if he were examining
601 Dream,2|           where I was going. She was stunning. It was a silhouette portrait.
602 Sins,1 |            nuthin'!" Geography was a subject I really liked and I had
603 Sins,5 |              me more and more during subsequent appointments, but she changed
604 Sins,3 |           could make no sense of it. Suddenly I heard the whining of a
605 Dream,4|            sash at his waist and was suitably armed: a dagger, a steel
606 Dream,3|             the clothes closet for a suitcase. I also had to get my ticket
607 Sins,1 |            always played with during summer holidays and who was the
608 Sins,1 |              calling out my name and summoning me to the blackboard, when
609 Sins,2 |           down my combined lunch and supper at home, a disaster occurred.
610 Sins,3 |            neither Aleks nor I could supply an answer.~"You disappeared
611 Dream,3|          Anna. Washington! And I was supposed to travel the very next
612 Dream,4|            of light moving along the surface of the ocean. And to follow
613 Dream,4|        flight had almost reached the surreal. It was assisted no doubt
614 Sins,1 |             three girls who blithely surrounded him. All we had to do was
615 Dream,1|         ignored by the people at the surrounding tables. He gives me a hearty
616 Sins,4 |            not last as long as I had suspected. I began to calm down, especially
617 Dream,5|            was there on the dressing table. I took it and had another
618 Dream,1|            people at the surrounding tables. He gives me a hearty welcome,
619 Sins,5 |    appointments, but she changed her tactics. Not only did her breasts
620 Sins,6 |        electrically like the cut-off tail of a lizard. It was a cataclysm.
621        | taking
622 Sins,5 |           She smiled, and I grimaced tastelessly from the freezing.~
623 Sins,5 |              sort. My experience has taught me the opposite. I began
624 Dream,3|              more and more bills and taxes to pay. You'll have to go
625 Sins   |             of the bitten~(Mëkatet e të kafshuarit)~
626 Sins,2 |             just had his teeth done, telling him of my misfortune. We
627 Sins,2 |      presented me in lavish, baroque terms which degenerated into rococo.
628 Sins,2 |             was in despair and had a terrible night, hardly sleeping a
629 Sins,4 |              was with my mouth open, terrorized by the calvary awaiting
630 Dream,5|              you."~"How kind of you! Thanks very much. It would be a
631 Sins,6 |              with a thick point, the thickest I had ever seen.~"Open wider,"
632 Sins,5 |          mixing the amalgam, and her thigh, firm but fleshy, brushed
633 Sins,5 |             the chair and I felt her thighs touch my knees ever so briefly.
634 Dream,5|            remember spending my time thinking about where I would go on
635 Dream,6|             caught sight of a small, thinnish woman in her forties. She
636 Dream,2|            going!" It was with these thoughts that I began work...~
637 Dream,4|              from an altitude of ten thousand metres means that it was
638 Dream,2|             spent at the cafe. I was thunderstruck, but I collected myself
639        | thus
640 Dream,5|            short time, actually just till tomorrow. And I thought
641 Sins,5 |             odd hours of the day, at times when no one else was present
642 Dream,5|           Although I was desperately tired, I couldn't get to sleep
643 Sins,2 |         giving her a crooked, almost toothless smile.~"Have a seat," she
644 Dream,3|              boss as we stood at the top of the staircase. "I just
645 Sins,4 |     instruments into my mouth.~I was totally embarrassed and did not
646 Sins,2 |              is a real master of the trade and she won't hurt at all.
647 Sins,2 |             and was thus in a rather tragicomical situation. Most of my teeth -
648 Sins,1 |           sano" which he hastened to translate as: "A healthy mind in a
649 Dream,4|            sky, and by the strangely transparent atmosphere. From the time
650 Dream,3|    Washington! And I was supposed to travel the very next day. I had
651 Sins,5 |              my shoulder. I began to tremble every time she came near
652 Sins,6 |             recognized him and began trembling at the doorway.~"Here he
653 Sins,2 |             and an odd grimace which tried to be a smile. I looked
654 Sins,2 |           she won't hurt at all. She tries her best not to cause any
655 Dream,3|           fond of my sudden business trips, but she knew better than
656 Dream,6|         muttered.~"Yes, I have. It's true... Young girls, girls are
657 Sins,6 |            pity and... the moment of truth arrived. He thrust his pincers
658 Sins,2 |              exclaimed my companion, trying to break the ice.~"Yes,
659 Sins,3 |          hands of the vice-principal tugging at our ear lobes, as he
660 Sins,1 |           Aleks and we took a sudden turn left, the way you took to
661 Sins,6 |               Have a seat," he said, turning to me.~I sat down. The same
662 Sins,1 |             his pocket which we took turns biting into. Maybe we had
663 Dream,6|             and wait in vain.~It was twenty past nine and there were
664 Sins,1 |             list. He smiled briefly, twitched his whiskers and continued:~"
665 Sins,6 |              and shook. My legs were twitching electrically like the cut-off
666 Dream,4|            for boarding vessels, the type of hook which had gouged
667 Sins,2 |            no time to reflect on any ulterior meaning.~
668 Sins,6 |              not budge. The pain was unbearable. I was quaking. He seemed
669 Dream,5|          vain. I did not even really understand my motive for needing to
670 Dream,1|               his old car, that Fiat Uno, remains parked out front.
671 Dream,4|               We gave one another an unusually friendly smile and waved,
672 Dream,5|              which had brought me so urgently to America lasted only two
673        | used
674 Sins,1 |             I took a deep breath and uttered:~"Let's run away!"~"OK,"
675 Dream,4|              had lost one eye in the vanguard of a battle. The empty socket
676 Sins,6 |             and the dentist wielding various instruments in his hands.
677 Sins,6 |           his thick arm with all the veins into my throat, my esophagus,
678 Sins,5 |            appointment, when she had verified that the freezing from the
679 Dream,4|              steel hook for boarding vessels, the type of hook which
680 Sins,1 |            The dentists have come to visit our school. They've brought
681 Sins,5 |       opposite. I began enjoying the visits to my dentist, Anna.~She
682 Sins,3 |             dentist's chair, and the wad of cotton stuck up my nose.~
683 Dream,4|          strap. He had a sash at his waist and was suitably armed:
684 Dream,2|             and to be staring at the waiter who was coming over with
685 Dream,1|         least an hour beforehand and waits for me, all his brilliant
686 Sins,1 |              field and to the girls' washroom.~The phantom did not notice,
687 Dream,7|           the last couple of days. I wasn't feeling too well... That'
688 Sins,4 |              were examining some old watch.~"They did a bad job on
689 Dream,6|              another glance at it. I watched the flow of people shuffling
690 Dream,4|         unusually friendly smile and waved, both acutely aware of what
691 Dream,6|              her forties. She looked weary as she approached and asked: "
692 Dream,4|        assisted no doubt by the fine weather, not a cloud in the sky,
693 Dream,1|         tables. He gives me a hearty welcome, in particular since I'm
694        | whether
695 Sins,3 |             it. Suddenly I heard the whining of a motor and felt a metallic
696 Sins,1 |         smiled briefly, twitched his whiskers and continued:~"Those of
697        | whose
698 Sins,6 |      thickest I had ever seen.~"Open wider," he growled. I opened as
699 Sins,6 |           wide open, and the dentist wielding various instruments in his
700 Dream,4|       continent, I stared out of the window at the shimmer of light
701 Sins,2 |             night, hardly sleeping a wink.~"Get to the dentist, right
702        | within
703 Sins,2 |          master of the trade and she won't hurt at all. She tries
704 Dream,3|      Washington! I had just seen the word written on the back of the
705 Sins,1 |             the map of the political world by heart. On that Monday,
706 Dream,6|             me that I had chosen the worst possible moment for our
707 Sins,3 |          there waiting for us. Three wrathful faces, ready for the attack,
708 Sins,6 |            she said, pointing to the x-ray.~"Hmm," he snarled, and
709 Sins,2 |       painlessly installed some five years earlier, fractured. I was
710 Dream,6|            Yes, I have. It's true... Young girls, girls are like the
711        | yourself
712 Dream,6|        greeted me in Russian with a "zdrastvuye." I smiled and answered