Dove non suoanano più i fucili - Europuglia
Dove non suoanano più i fucili - Europuglia
Dove non suoanano più i fucili - Europuglia
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like to have a coffee with her on the hotel terrace (at the bottom of the A3 page she<br />
had used to write her letter, this time Eugene had added a redundant PhD). The following<br />
day after a chat with a Genevan astronomer on holiday, I saw Eugene again<br />
and we talked for a hour surrounded by the enchanted atmosphere you can breathe<br />
in this city, by the Greek origins of the professor, by that time when at the age of<br />
twenty she met her husband Christian, who was on holiday in Greece and she told<br />
him, “Take me with you and marry me or go away forever.” So they left for the United<br />
States. Since then her trips to Europe have gotten rarer, until ten years ago when<br />
she fell in love with this part of the Balkans. I confessed to her my old passion for<br />
Greece and the fact that my analyst, Sotirios, comes from Thessaly.<br />
When the hour came, as well-organized Americans do, she stood up and said goodbye<br />
as she ran to her morning appointments.<br />
Five minutes later, Lanzo appeared on the terrace with a pleated face of someone<br />
who got acquainted with a foreign country even in the biblical sense. After he had<br />
recovered, we left with our big suitcases to go back to the Moon.<br />
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