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He wore time like a man who feared it would fray and tear. He may have aspired to the relaxed carelessness of the ciondolone, the idler, but Marco was idle only in appearance. At his soul, he was angst-ridden as Kierkegaard pondering his deathbed.

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble an existence about which they don’t feel an unendurable level of shame.”