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It was Thornton Wilder's poor, lonely Uncle Pio with whom John most identified, not because Uncle Pio was doomed to fall from the disintegrating bridge, but because Unlce Pio had made himself servant to the idea of beauty, which required the slow bravery of patience - and because he was said to own a secret house "full of dogs that could add and multiply".