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Low life

Italy, in seven hours and five trains

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

The train standing at platform 1A had no air-conditioning and the heat was stupefying. Latecomers pressing into the carriage reacted to it as to a slap in the face. Those with nothing better to hand fanned themselves with their tickets.

The lady seated opposite me mistook my theatrical languor for conviviality.

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