"Were it not for the arthritis, I'd never have seen Helena again." "Him, I recognized immediately." "My master and friend, the first genius life had revealed to me." "Nobody had ever been as fond of me as the professor." "She lived in Pacaembu." "I lived in Alto de Pinheiros." "With our distinct social circles, the odds of us crossing paths... was minimal, and for three decades, that had, indeed, never happened... as if God was answering the ardent plea I sent to the heavens." "HOORAY!" "THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD ARE BACK!" "FAREWELL, GETÚLIO!" "PEACE!" "Looks like this time there's no escape for me." "It's going to be inevitable to travel to Paris." "So you really got your scholarship." "I knew it, I was sure of it!" "Professor... you were the one who arranged for this trip." "The merit is all yours." "I'm just the instrument of your ability to realize the impossible." "Can you imagine me, Poly..." "Paris, Professor!" "Who would have thought?" "Why the surprise?" "You are an educated, clever, talented youth." "I've always known that, since high school." "Now you have to turn... your stint in Europe into something permanent, for the future." "I took the liberty of elaborating a list of mandatory places to see." "Here, in the Montparnasse cemetery, Baudelaire is buried." "Here, in this street, Rue Monsieur Le Prince... the great Auguste Comte used to live." "During the 2 years I was abroad, we wrote each other regularly... but as the time went by, I felt him more melancholy... maybe because my love for culture was being replaced... by my growing interest in politics." "Worse:" "My inclination towards the Fascist ideas he so despised... especially after the rise of Integralism and "Estado Novo"." "He got married?" "That old bachelor?" "The world is really gone crazy." " My son!" " Professor!" " How good to see you around here." " Yes, I came back early." "War is not the best of environments." "And there's nothing like our own home, family and friends." " In a world so full of trouble..." " No doubt about it." "Come in." "Come." "Helena, my wife, is in Campos do Jordão." "Come in, I want to know everything." "Well, my scholarship was up, it was time to come back anyway." "And with the war, Europe was becoming a dangerous place." "Not that I disapprove entirely of Hitler... but since Brazil seems on a good path, thanks to Getúlio Vargas..." "So you're starting to tread the crooked path of right-wing politics." "Not exactly." "What about the Lyceum?" "Are you still teaching there?" "The same old monotony." "Sometimes I get a dedicated pupil, but no one as brilliant as you were." " "Merci"." " Maybe that's why I don't feel... as motivated as before." "I've been even noticing some memory lapses... which I'd never experienced in the past years." "You are a lot thinner!" "Do you think so?" "Well, maybe I've lost some weight, but I feel fine." "Maybe I've really lost weight." "You know how it is in Paris." "The finest universities, a life... the cafés, being surrounded by beautiful women... these things leave a lone wolf at the mercy of small prey." "Pont Neuf, those bars..." "You have to meet Helena." " Professor, you can't imagine..." " And you were really talking?" "My studies in Paris were fantastic, great." "Anyway, I dyed my hat." "Thank God it was already out of style." "I'm worried." "I'd like to ask you something for our friendship's sake." "I'd like you to visit with a doctor friend of mine." "This thinness of yours doesn't seem normal to me." "Would you do that?" " Well, I hear and obey, Master." " I've already made the appointment." "You'll see the tests will be only to put my mind at rest." "Why underestimate the advances of medicine, right?" "Tomorrow I'll pick you up at 8." "I'll have a supply of blood, plasma and albumen ready." " Not to mention urine and f..." " Good night." "See you tomorrow." "Well, Doctor Carlos?" " His physical looks perfect." " Great." "But to erase any doubts, I'll order some detailed tests." "Several endemic diseases cannot be detected... by a simple auscultation." "I realized the old professor had become a hypochondriac... and was including me in his obsession." "Anyway, it was a kind gesture which I accepted without reluctance." " We'll wait for your contact." " I'll be in touch if I find something." " All right." " Okay?" " Thank you." " Take care." "All the tests came up negative." " Congratulations." "You're healthy." " Can we go, then?" "It's amazing how the press ignores Hitler's political ability." "If someone dropped a bomb on that ability, it wouldn't be so bad." "But a big liberal like me tolerates anyone in politics, even a Fascist... albeit only one:" "You." "I'm glad to hear that." "Would you like to have lunch with me tomorrow?" "My treat." "I'll go to Campos do Jordão to see Helena." "Would you like to come too?" "I'd love to." "I don't have anything to do, I'm not settled yet so I could accompany you." " Go with me?" "Wait a minute." " What day is it today?" " The 17th." "It would be better if you met me there four days from now." "You are amazing!" "You never forget to prepare something for my birthday." "Thank you very much for that." ""Men who love have good memory" as the great Tchekhov used to say." " Of course." "We'll celebrate there." "How do you do?" "I was waiting for you." "Alberto had to go to São Paulo today to settle some family business... and he didn't have time to tell you." "He should be back in four or five days." "It doesn't matter." "My aunt lives nearby, in Capivari, and I haven't seen her in years." " I'll be back in a few days." " No, I..." "Wouldn't it be better if you stayed?" "Please stay." "Alberto begged me to make you stay in the cottage until his return." "My aunt will love my visit, it'll be better that way." "Honestly." " I'll be back later, I assure you." " No way." "You stay here." "Alberto was adamant." "If you go, I'll be in a difficult situation." "As always, I have to yield to the professor." "He commands, I obey." "Those green eyes, demure, the most beautiful I'd ever seen... not once looked at my face during the days I spent there." "The first time that happened was 30 years later... in the garden with dwarves of colored chalk." " Cold, isn't it?" " It's always cold in the evening." "But the sun is still up." "Why don't you go for a stroll in the woods?" "Good idea." "I'll go." "Stretch my legs a little." "Dinner will be served at seven." "I couldn't pinpoint the kind of woman Helena was." "What could her youth and beauty have seen in the professor... an extraordinary man, but already old and penniless?" "Nothing added up:" "The unsteady terrain... and the eyes that never looked at me." " Cold, isn't it?" " I'll serve dinner." "Would you open the wine?" "Excellent year." " Sit down." "Here's some hot broth." " Delicious." "Broth always reminds people of their mothers, right?" "Won't you sit down?" "In a moment." "We don't have a maid." "But don't worry, I'm used to it." " Lf you want, I could help you." " There's no need to." "Would you like some more?" "No, thanks." "I've been abroad two years... and it's amazing how much fashions have changed during my absence." "People now look like, let's say, more American." "A long stay in Paris isn't devoid of bizarre happenstance." "Actually, what difference does it make to cross the ocean... only to find the accursed human essence on every corner?" "This duck is delicious." "I simply love this dish." "This duck!" ""Canard à I'orange", truly a delicacy." "Speaking about the animal kingdom, I remember an elephant story." "It happened to Mário, a friend from Ceará, in the south of France." "Him and his wife rented a small car to go touring." "They stopped to take in a beautiful landscape." "After that, they walked "dans le bois"... and left the car parked there." "Not very far, there was a circus... and from that circus, an elephant escaped for a stroll "dans le bois"." "The poor thing, exhausted, decided to sit down." "On the car's roof." "After he rested, he continued on his "promenade vers le bois"." "When they found the car... they couldn't find any plausible explanation for that... and couldn't believe the one that some children were repeating:" "That the damage had been caused by a sitting elephant." "They were very upset with what they thought a child's prank... and they returned to Paris... with their spines arched... their heads touching the roof... and an elephant flying around in their minds." "Pity that Alberto isn't here." "Alberto, more than a friend, represents to me... a master, in the Oriental sense of the word... the person whose sum of virtues should be followed faithfully." "But that Mário was indeed a funny fellow." "Imagine that once, in Paris... he'd gotten that kind of lice which inhabit the person's private parts." "Cooties is the popular name." "He couldn't speak much French, but he went to buy some medicine." "In the pharmacy, he told the female clerk, "J'ai un petit animal ici"... pointing to his own crotch!" "Big liberal who tolerates anyone." "My God." "Caramel cream." "I haven't had such a perfect meal in years and this is icing on the cake." "It's a veritable... orgiastic climax." "I'll make some coffee." " I'll help you." " You clumsy oaf!" "I'll take care of everything." "I'm here." "I'm all yours." "How can I help you?" "Her glance, that always started at shoulder level... and, to avoid my face, ran down the sides and the middle of my body... risked to fix itself on a rude tumescence... capable of destroying the magic of that moment." "This champagne?" "I remember I drank it once, in Rouen." "I didn't know it could be found here in Brazil." "Even in Paris it's hard to come by, and it's expensive." "Chin-chin." "I've always asked myself, why "chin-chin"?" "Doesn't it sound ridiculous, almost childish, "chin-chin"?" "Chin-chin." " Isn't it too dark in here?" " It's better like this." "How beautiful you are." "Surprising." "Perfumed." "And sassy!" "What are you doing?" "Wait." "Wait a..." "Our unpredictable desire made me stay in that room... of which I can't remember a single object or piece of furniture... most of the time I spent in Campos do Jordão." "Good morning." "I brought you custard cream." "Go for a walk... and be back for lunch." "It will be served at noon." "Yes, ma'am." "Very good." " Tastes like..." " Cognac." "Excellent." "Excellent cognac." "Helena, have you been taking precautions?" "I mean, are you using any methods to avoid an embarrassing situation?" "In that field, darling, surely my competence is far superior to yours." "Helena!" "Aren't you going to have breakfast?" "Eat." "Lunch will be ready at noon." "Don't be late." "Helena..." "I don't remember hearing her ever utter my name... and for that I was glad, because I always found it ridiculous." "I'd like some more coffee, please." "Helena... if you permit me, I want to stay in my room in the morning from now on." "I'm too tired to walk." "And the last few days were exhausting, you know." "Do whatever you want." "Helena... it's been four days already." "Considering the unexpected turn of events..." "I think we need to decide what to do." "Don't you think?" "It's already been decided." "You'll go away this morning." "Alberto will arrive in the afternoon." "I do not love you." "I wanted to have an affair and I did." "I have no regrets." "I'd never been unfaithful to my husband." "It won't happen again." "If I change my mind, I'll let you know." "And another thing." "I forbid you to come see me or Alberto ever again." "I will tell him that... you disrespected me and I threw you out." "That will justify your final disappearance from our lives... and it will spare the suffering of a friend." "Now get up and shave." "Pack your bag." "Your numbered train ticket is in your bedroom's nightstand drawer." "Have a glass of milk with cookies." "The milk is in the fridge." "The cookies are in the pantry, in the can with a parrot painted on it." "Farewell has already been said." "I'll stay in my room until you leave." "I was so dumbfounded that only upon arriving in São Paulo I remembered... it was my 25th birthday." "At first..." "I could only feel love for Helena and shame for the professor." "After that, sometimes I thought about her, other times, about him." "Whenever it was Helena's turn..." "I was inundated by the absurd hope that she would look for me again." "Poly..." "The professor, on the other hand, set my imagination aflame." "I began to hate Fascism." "I tried to go to war." "I dreamed of being a dead hero, my picture on every newspaper..." "YOUNG BRAZILIAN HERO IN ITALY so that he'd know it and forgive me." "Time passed." "My feelings for Helena dwindled with every new substitution." "But during those 30 years, there wasn't personal or national shame... that could substitute the shame the image of the professor brought me." " How are you?" " Fine." "And you?" "How do you do?" "I didn't recognize Helena immediately... sitting there, by the professor's side, among colorful dwarves." "So, the most brilliant of my pupils is now an arthritic." "Sad fate, this one of the rheumatic São Paulo bourgeoisie." "You're right." "There is always an arthritis in everyone's life." "We take some air inbetween meals... we talk among these jolly dwarves while Brazil is on fire." " Yes." "The situation is complicated, that's true." "If I were 40 years younger..." "I'd surely be robbing banks and army camps, like!" "I'm tired, Helena." " Let's go back." " Let's go." "It's getting cold anyway." " Why don't you come with us?" " Of course." "Have you retired?" "I've been in retirement for a few years now." "And you?" "I give lessons, read, write, and that's it." "Sometimes I go to the dentist, with whom I keep a stable relationship." "If I may say so, almost an amalgam." ""JERUBIAÇABA" MEANS "LOYALTY" IN THE TUPI LANGUAGE" "Well, the innkeepers' Tupi does not inspire more confidence... than the Latin of the local priest." "The priest, Professor?" "I've been to the chapel... and the old priest insists in saying mass the old-fashioned way." "Well, I..." "I'll go inside." "This is not the place, nor now is the moment... for a conversation we must have." "Maybe we could meet tomorrow." "Of course." "Thank you." "I've committed a crime and I paid dearly for it, my son." "So brutal was my punishment, I cannot imagine anything worse." "Even so, I can't find peace." "That's why I went back to the church." "But you know me." "I rebel every day." "I want revenge for my punishment!" "I spend my days weighing my crime against my punishment." "That's all I can think of!" "I'm glad that fate has put you in my path." "This is the time." "You must be thinking that I've lost my mind." "No, absolutely." "I understand your disquiet before my morbid reverie... but I'm not insane!" "The facts exist, and they are implacable." "Tomorrow you'll know everything, and then you shall judge me." "Tomorrow, in the square with the merry dwarves, at sunset." "Too much light makes me ill." "What would I do with the forgiveness of a madman?" "Alberto is not feeling well, he's been in bed all day... but I don't think that's the reason he didn't want to meet you here." "He doesn't have the heart to speak to you anymore, after yesterday." "He asked me to do it for him... to tell you everything." "Everything?" "I'm willing to fulfill my mission to the letter, with one condition:" "Let me talk without interrupting... not only to make my task easier, but also because the matter... will be closed in a way that will not leave answers to any questions." "And she told me everything in a continuous flow, slowly... taking care not to leave anything out, and with such method... that not once she had to go back to complement anything she said." "Alberto loved only three persons in his life." "The first one was you." "If you hadn't gone abroad and I hadn't shown up... you'd have probably been the only one." "From the day he met you in high school until you went to Europe... you were the center of his life." "He never had any reserves about you." "Even your name he found beautiful." "When I met him, it was me who fell in love, at first." "He could only think about his absent friend." "How he resented not having a single picture of you." "I love my husband just as strongly today, and I'm jealous by nature." "Very well:" "In more than 30 years of love... the only person I've ever been jealous of was you." "I liked Alberto since the day I met him... and since that day, I'd make up any excuses to go see him." "Actually, I think he accepted my visits because I heard attentively... his stories about you." "He'd read your letters aloud, omitting the more lurid details." "In my eagerness to push you away, I precipitated matters." "We became lovers one morning, and in that same afternoon... he began to make the legal arrangements." "Such a hurry in getting married... was because he wanted to impregnate me... and I found that moving." "But I went cold when he wished our son to be someone like you." "Our lives went dark from there." "I simply wouldn't get pregnant." "His pride blamed me for our failure." "Alberto, Mrs. Helena is definitely a fertile woman." "Only after all the experts were unanimous... in recognizing my ability to procreate... he accepted the idea of undergoing similar tests." "They revealed Alberto was sterile." "That was when he became closer to me than ever." "During these 30 years together... that was the time when our union was strongest." "We both thought and reacted as one." "Such unity made possible the madness we threw ourselves into." "The first time Alberto exposed his plan to me, I was horrified... and I went to my confessor." "I was and still am a Catholic." "I've always kept my faith alive... even being married to an Atheist husband." "You're being induced by the devil... to challenge God's will... and to commit a crime against your neighbor!" "If you become an accomplice to your husband's crazy design... there won't be a place for you in the Catholic Church anymore!" "And right away, I forbid you to talk to me... inside or outside the confession booth!" "Well, I discussed with Alberto the priest's arguments... but his ponderings on the question went to higher and higher levels... until they reached spiritual values which move me to this day." "To begin with, he admitted he was the criminal, and you, the victim... even though apparently he was the cuckold, and you, the seducer." "The inevitable parting of the ways which would come between you two... if anything went as planned, would weigh much heavier on him." "In your life so full of love, loved back by your family... your friends and women, in the end, you'd be only upset... about the loss of a friend." "But for Alberto, losing you would be a sacrifice, an immolation... so prominent was the place you occupied in his life." "He was convinced of a mysterious law which wouldn't let him accumulate... but only substitute affections." "The figure 2 was his share of love in this world... and it was fulfilled by me and by you." "The coming of a son demanded the sacrifice of one of us, me or you." "He even said something to me that only recently I could forgive him." "If one day you could have been impregnated by me... you know what I would find the most harmonic thing in this chaos?" "If you died giving birth." "That way, his share would be fulfilled by you and our son." "I admit that, in this whole story... one thing has always stimulated me:" "You would disappear forever from Alberto's life." "I don't need to go over every detail of the project we prepared... because you have known its realization as well as I have." "When they show just a little of their gums like this, Professor..." "I feel like I'm in heaven!" "The knowledge Alberto had about you made things easier." "I had to submit myself to painful exercise in front of the mirror... to force my aching muscles into pulling the upper lip as they should." "Try to smile showing a little bit of your gums." "That's how he likes it." "That's it, but gently, cocking your head a little... more or less like that." "That's it." "That's it." "That's it, more..." "more gently now... maybe cocking your head gently." " Like this?" "Yes, that's it." "That's the smile." "The cinema, which he always hated, was useful so I could observe... the way the actresses walked, their hairdos and gowns... which insinuated indiscreetly their anatomic shapes." "Everything according to what you elected as the most attractive." "This one is perfect." "I want five yards of it." "I started to work on it myself, cutting and sewing... because I couldn't stand the ridicule of ordering a dress like that one." " How do you do?" " No, don't shake his hand." "How do you do?" "We did countless rehearsals in São Paulo, and then in Campos." "We finished the exhausting final rehearsal an hour before you came." "The moment you showed up, when you knocked on the door..." "I became so nervous I almost could not go on with the mis-en-scène." "Alberto could have been a great director... but he'd have to rely on a more competent actress than myself." "It doesn't matter." "My aunt lives nearby, in Capivari, and I haven't seen her in years." "I'll be back in a few days to see if the professor is back." "No, I..." "Wouldn't it be better if you stayed?" "Please stay." "Alberto begged me to make you stay in the cottage until his return." "The fiasco in the overture altered the script." "I was forced to ad-lib." " Here?" " Here." "I managed to control myself... but to execute the task, during four days... and four painstakingly long nights..." "I had to modify completely the character created... with so much imagination by my husband." ""It is true that this languidness only preys upon me at night... but that's when I feel more... alive. "" "I used very little of the long lines he'd written for me... to utter at the table, in bed and during the empty hours of rest." "Speaking about the animal kingdom, I remember an elephant story." "You helped me a great deal on that first dinner, talking all the time... telling stories I could not hear, so intent was I in grinning... pulling up the lip to show the gums you were so aroused by." "In bed, silence was easier... and I could do away with the lines full of eroticism... that Alberto had translated from the French." "I must say that, apart from the tragedy that befell our family... those days with you were the worst in my entire life." "They would have been unbearable if you were less submissive." "But I can't give myself or you credit for the plan's perfect development." "The credit is all Alberto's, and only his." "Preparation of the dinner followed indications... culled from the letters you sent him from France." "One of them praised the "canard à I'orange"." "Out of a postcard you sent him from Rouen..." "Alberto chose the champagne that would be served." "I've always asked myself, why "chin-chin"?" "Doesn't it sound ridiculous, almost childish?" "Chin-chin." "Your last tryst before you went to Europe... with the woman who sexually aroused you the most... inspired the idea of the caramel cream as dessert." "My only humble contribution to the practice of our intentions... was to use knowledge acquired from pictures in a Scandinavian book... about cattle farming, that belonged to my grandfather, a farmer." "And sassy." "What are you doing?" "Stallions, when submitted to a certain stroking of their organs... have their sexual function abbreviated." "Alberto worried a lot about your health." "You, in your letters... with your ironic style, mocked French physicians." "He even suspected you could have gotten some venereal disease." "But so many tests were also necessary... so we could be sure that you were not sterile... which would render our effort a ridiculous one." "I'll go to Campos do Jordão to see Helena." "Would you like to come too?" "I'd love to." "I don't have anything to do, I'm not settled yet and I could accompany you." " Go with me?" "Wait a minute." "The days for our intercourse were carefully chosen." " What day is it today?" " The 17th." "But Alberto couldn't commit to memory the rhythm of my periods." "That's why he had to check my fertile days in front of you." "...four days from now." "You are amazing!" "You never forget to prepare something..." "When you remembered your birthday, you spared him the embarrassment." ""Men who love... "" "When my pregnancy was confirmed, we stopped talking about you." "Not having looked at you during those days helped me turning you... into an easily forgettable abstraction." "At first, I needed to concentrate so I wouldn't look at you." "Kissing you in the dark was easier than dining together not seeing you." "I organized the darkness so the little statues of Our Lord... and of the saints who I always have with me would not be seen... nor wouldn't see that stranger by my side." "They didn't have anything to do with that." "And even in those days, I did not interrupt my prayers." "Our son was born after the normal period... exactly nine months, within a day, within an hour of your departure." "If you had left a day earlier, we'd have to start all over again." "I cannot describe the happiness that child has brought us... but when he turned into an adolescent..." "Alberto began clamming up into a total silence." "He'd lock himself up in his office, always jotting down numbers... in different orders, devoid of any arithmetic function." "His altered mood generated a crisis which I expected him to elucidate." "It was then that I followed a hunch... based on readings about nowadays' youth." "What are you afraid of, Alberto?" "That he could be a homosexual?" "But one day, thank God, my child found a female companion." "Don't worry, Mom." "The college, his friends, that girl... the myriad engagements I couldn't understand... and finally, his move to a rented apartment... took him away from us." "He would have dinner with us only on his birthday, or ours." "The approaching of the 25th birthday of our son... threw Alberto into a stronger crisis." "When he gets here, let me know." "But I don't want to see him today." "Tell him to come back tomorrow." "My son did not show up that night." "He was like that during the following weeks." "The doctors couldn't diagnose his illness." "He lived only because I wouldn't let him die:" "He didn't want to leave me." "As soon as he got better, I ran to my son's apartment in Vila Buarque." "But, oddly enough, he had moved a while ago." "Alberto gained new strength." "He began to go out every day." "He went on mysterious trips." "He was arrested." "But nowadays it's not strange to see young people fighting this regime." "What are you going to do?" "Don't worry." "I've made all the legal arrangements." "Now we need to keep calm." "One day, he came home with a horrible revelation." "He's dead." "Our son had died in prison exactly on the day of your birthday." "It was his turn of taking care of me." "I didn't have any scruples in letting myself die." "When I got out of bed, blessed arthritis... brought pains which eased up my suffering." "Even before this tragedy, Alberto already considered himself guilty." "His mad calculations led him to the conclusion he had committed a crime." "His punishment was the death of his son." "His starting point was that same story about... the share of love he was entitled to in this world:" "The implacable number 2." "Until my boy's adolescence, everything seemed calm... but then, all of a sudden, he began worrying about numbers again." "Maybe what sparkled his imagination... was some great resemblance between yourself and our son." "I can't tell whether the young man I took to bed in Campos do Jordão... resembled my son or not." "Since yesterday, I've been examining you... trying to imagine if he would grow up to be an old man like you." "But that's a futile effort... since he will always be 25 to us... until the day we die, and he finally dies for good with us." "He turned 25... exactly the day he's got you pregnant." "He nevermore stopped reading and calculating, hoping to see erased... his numerology conclusions." "Helena." "Helena." "Come to the bedroom, I need to tell you something." "The crime the hermetic science points to, Helena, was against him." "Him who?" "I couldn't have moved him away from my love." "It was just you and him!" "That's why I was sterile." "Nobody else." "That's the great law I violated." "You know, if 1 appeals incoercible to 3... it is also incoercible the repellence between 2 and 3." "I made a mistake in interpreting my apportioned share of love." "Actually, I'd already been born loving myself." "I was born with that slot already occupied, and the other one..." "It's too much humanity." "Too much humanity transpires from that man." "A fragile humanity, with the heroic disposition... of taking on itself the world's guilt." "But his spirit is in peace now." "Having sacrificed you and our son, only me and him are left." "You know what that means?" "Any love between you two would start all over again." "We already had proof of that yesterday." "This place's too small for the three of us." "I demand that you leave now." "We'll stay here 25 days more." "We do not expect you to condemn us or absolve us." "I'll tell Alberto you mocked us... saying we were crazy and delirious." "Now I'll go, because in these years I've never left him alone this long." "Goodbye." "I'd like to check out." "My thoughts soon abandoned the pathetic face of Helena... and the tragic figure of the professor, to focus on my son... who, during so short a time, I had gained and lost." "Yes?" "Check me out, I need to go back to São Paulo." "The manager left this souvenir for your 50th birthday." "Happy birthday." "50th?" "Thanks." "I'm in a hurry." "Are you going to celebrate your birthday there?" "I have to meet someone." "I decided to ask my son to enrich me and save me... and for that, I'm willing to do anything." "You may sign here Mr. Po..." " Polydoro." " My name is Polydoro." " With an "i"?" "With a "y"." "A favorable mix of 5 consonants and 3 vowels is worth so little." "A clown's name... given in honor of an illustrious great-grandfather... who branded with fire my aspirations to harmony and elegance... in a cruel and random world, which secret logic I ignored until today... despite the rare opportunity which was given me:" "To meet the Great Master." 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