Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples. - Norman Lewis

Inexplicably no boats are allowed out, but nothing is said in the proclamation about rafts. Everyone improvises and adapts.

There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city.

A year among the Italians had converted me to such an admiration for their humanity and culture that I realise that were I given the chance to be born again and to choose the place of my birth, Italy would be the country of my choice.