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„This makes him two people, one cold and the other sweet as a nut. Cold for Lombardy, easily offended, hard to reach, and sweet for Emilia-Romagna, the most innocent region, where the air from the mountains comes down into the towns, so that sometimes on the streets of Bologna you can catch the scent of spring flowers. He pulls a humorous, cod-romantic face.“

“He doesn't tell him about the boy. … Their life together encompasses many folds. Piero, who made his white shirt, who is perhaps the finest shirt-maker in Rome, and therefore the world, understands more than anyone that every construction must necessarily contain a region that remains unseen. The manufacture of a shirt, like the manufacture of a film, involves illusion and splendid reversals. Also seams.”

“For the past few years he has been a visitor to the rooms of the rich, but never to a space like this. It's like a cavern under the sea. The water sloshes outside and a pattern like seaweed is stippled on the walls. The grandeur does not intimidate him. Instead he feels like a pearl, finely set. He is looking at the velvet curtains, trying to discern if they are green or black as he subsides into sleep.”