Two more boys with plastered heads and round eyes came out of the bushes, buttoning shirts that had already dampened onto their shoulders and arms, and I tried to stop the laughter, but I couldn't.
But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleasant to the smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.
During the middle part of the nineteenth century, this notion of a balm of Gilead was used as a symbol for getting rid of the pain and suffering that the African-American community was experiencing.
In fleetingclear spells of lucidity, when Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell her what bothered him most and would accept her sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile way.
The first is the size of a plaster and is affixed to the skin like a fake moustache under the user's nose. The second, more capable version is a flexible face mask.