Bạn có bao giờ cảm thấy mệt mỏi khi đọc không? “Cô hỏi.” Bạn khó có thể được gọi là công ty tốt! Bạn không biết rằng, với phụ nữ, bạn phải nói chuyện? “Cô nói thêm, nụ cười nửa của cô có lẽ là mỉa mai , nó dường như hết sức đe dọa.
Don’t you ever get tired of reading?” she asked. “You could hardly be called good company! Don’t you know that, with women, you’re supposed to make conversation?” she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening.
Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves