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Don't throw away the ad-
vantages of your position, of your background. .
." And the sorcerer went on, dangling a rattle before me, as they
had done when I was a child in order to make me walk.

I received the letter in Venice, which, for me, was still redolent
with Byron's verses. I was immersed in a dream, living in the past,
thinking of Venice as the Serene Republic of the Renaissance.

I, who had thought of going to
meet death, did not dare to face it when it came to meet me.