And I will throw the knife over.
She will no longer be Lucia, and it will hit. Name of God, it will hit her
and sink in."
"Well, she will have learned a lesson then, signor."
"She will have learned. But me, I will be ruined. They will laugh. They
will say, 'Salvini, the great Salvini, is done. He cannot throw the knives
any more. Look, last night he hit his wife. Twice, three, times he threw
the knives into her.' _Sapristi!_ It is the stubbornness of
womankind.
"I will tell you. Why does she eat, eat, eat? Why does she grow fat?
Because she no longer loves me. No, she do it on purpose to ruin me."
And the great Salvini covered his ears with his hands as the phonograph
continued relentlessly, "one, two, one, two, higher, two."
LETTERS
One of the drawers in my desk is full of letters that people have sent in.
Some of them are knocks or boosts, but most of them are tips. There are
several hundred tips on stories in the drawer.
Today, while looking them over I thought that these tips were a story in
themselves. To begin with, the different kinds of stationery and the
different kinds of handwriting. You would think that stationery and
handwriting so varied would contain varied suggestions and varied points
of view.
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