Two days later, don tico sent for me and told me that annibale cantalamessa and pio bo had ruined the evening.

Sometimes the booksellers give me sticks of incense as presents; once one of them gave me a little ivory hand to ward off the evil eye.

The only way to discomfit the devil is to make him believe you don’t believe in him.

I say they located the silver mines in the new world, caused eruptions of silver there, and then, controlling the gulf stream, shifted that precious metal to the portuguese coast.

On the other hand, i remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed krupskaya all the time, you’d end up writing a lousy book like materialism and empiriocriticism. ♎

When given to a young woman who was tormented by a devil during the night, this herb made him flee.

Drawn by my aunt’s moans, adelino canepa arrived with his wife and children.

The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be.

The portuguese and the english are there, but where are the french? in other words, the english had missed the french. ䷻

All symbols, all meanings, all forms are simply one way paths in an infinite field.

Rumor had it that ras had fallen in battle, and mongo was wounded.

You see that little villa over there, a kilometer from the hall? that’s where cecilia lived, the daughter of the salesians’ great patroness.

He had tonsillitis.

I may not look old, but i am.

Blissful times, before the christians seized power and began to put heretics to death.

There were other enthusiasts, in tubingen, who dreamed of the republic of christianopolis.

Before uscio there’s manuelina’s, which has at least twelve stars in the michelin and all the fish you could want.

They didn’t work, of course: it was the first thing that would have occurred to anyone.

But then my friends in publishing began sending me manuscripts and foreign books to read — naturally, the least appealing and for little money.

A global chart of the telluric tides.

There were some notes on the purchase of items from antiquarian booksellers in paris.

There is no way to decide at once whether an analogy is good or bad, because to some degree everything is connected to everything else.

We were interrupted by a girl with a strawberry birthmark on her nose; she had some papers in her hand and asked if we had signed the petition for the imprisoned argentinean comrades.

The bricco’s broad hump, the more tempered ridges of the hills in the background tell the story of the slow and drowsy stirrings of mother earth, who stretches and yawns, making and unmaking blue plains in the dread flash of a hundred volcanoes.

A nasty coincidence.

The tetrapyloctomy department has a preparatory function; its purpose is to inculcate a sense of irrelevance.

You must observe respectfully, of course, showing the same tolerance of all faiths as they do in accepting your unbelief.

What you understood was what you wanted to understand.

Bacon asked andreae to pen for him, in secret, a novel whose hidden author he would then pretend to be, enjoying in the shadows (but why? why?) another man’s triumph.

In other words, it all depends.

An arab seemed to be following me.

This is the source of the protocols.

Luckily the front page was still occupied by the funeral; the story about the train and the copy of the police sketch must be somewhere inside.

All we have to do to draw them is start a series that gets a little publicity.

The boy answers: gelindo.

What did you expect?

Allow me to round off to whole numbers; at my age the memory begins to fail a bit.

We are not told that he found a case studded with diamonds.

Afterward, she didn’t believe she had been possessed by pomba gira, but she knew that in the tenda de umbanda something had possessed her.

He took part in it nervously, anxiously biting his nails.

One woman sank into a trance, her eyes rolling back until only the whites were visible.

They understood each other, because they both thought of fatherland with a capital f.

Well, look who’s here.

This was a face i knew from photographs of firing squads — on both sides.

Night of saint john.

Maybe they began with the tour saint-jacques, before erecting the eiffel tower.

Difficult to hide when the hiding places are pictures at an exhibition.

Adelino canepa swore by everything sacred that this was not true, but obviously he felt responsible, because he had talked too much in town.

This is how it must have been in ‘68.’

In 1776 he appeared at the court of frederick the great, to whom he proposed various projects having to do with chemistry.