Venetian People

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    “I was happy there,
    part Venetian vase,
    part Swiss watch, part Indian head.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “He hadn’t known me fifteen minutes, and yet he was ... ready to talk ... I was still to learn that Munshin, like many people from the capital, could talk openly about his personal life while remaining a dream of espionage in his business operations.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)