"There, yes, go ahead," Battista encouraged him, "that the good stuff comes now."
This was followed by general criticism of the arrangement and the restaurant, irrelevant enough to allow some breathing space, after which came 'the good stuff' announced by the Professor, namely the tale of the hardships that happened to him.
On the 20th, at 4 p.m., a general gathering was scheduled at Marienplatz, in front of the entrance to a well-known bookstore.
The writer arrived there a few minutes early, finding only a dozen students clustered around a bench.
To better kill the time waiting for others, he then entered the bookstore, advising the students to warn their colleagues if they arrived before he left.
Nevertheless, when he returned outside about twenty minutes later, he found no one ther
