Rina called from the Crimea: she wants me to come sunbathe. I told her, "Too many wide-plank pines, too few hours, too much fatigue, impossible!" Library affairs are dismal too. But I rode my bike out to Hîrbovăţul Nou a few days ago to attend wedding ceremonies of friend Dieter, one of the Anenii Noi district's seven Jews; I drank generously & joyously of the good Feteasca Neagră, staining my mouth and my shirt: but ruddying my fragile spirits, sadly, only for a passing time.