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I could not, however, answer the question about which set of books I had read all of, since I hadn't read all of any set!


Next up: Where am I in my current book, when and why?

Where: Venice
When: 1908
Why: "a broken engagement and an abortive academic career"
(Ezra Pound has just arrived in Venice; the book is Ian Littlewood's A Literary Companion to Venice).

I'm also in Washington, D.C., it is September, 1995, and I'm there because I'm an Italian humor writer on assignment. (The book is Beppe Severgnini's Un Italiano in America).

Yet a third. I'm in Venice again, but two hundred years earlier, in 17__. I'm a castrato whose voice isn't all that hot, so I'm making my living in other ways. I've just fallen in with Giacomo Casanova. (The book is Jim Williams' Scherzo).

(If you think you see a theme here, you are absolutely right.)