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Recently he had published a highly regarded work — maybe that was the one Guido had liked so much — on the economic crisis and on the karstic movement of capital that was being shifted from sources to be investigated toward construction, finance, private television

I hissed and in such a peremptory tone, so clearly close to shouting, so determined to attack and to fight with all my energy, that he got up, slowly, and said with disgust

Stefano now tried to amuse her, but being amusing had never been his strong point, sentimental tones suited him better, or the sententious phrases of the mature man who knows what he wants

For days Nino continued to behave as if writing better than him was a sin that had to be expiated

The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral