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system, it is rigid, disciplined, tough through the baccalaureat. On the day you go to the university, you never need to even appear. All you have to do is take some exams at the end of the year.

Well, anyway, going back, we did live in an apartment and I did go to school but I'd get home, I guess, it was every other weekend for a day and a half. We used to summer, as we did when we were in Switzerland, in Rapallo, in Italy, where my grandfather moved. I forgot to tell you that some years after my parents moyed to Capri--horrors!--his father decided to move too.

Your paternal grandfather?

My paternal grandfather and grandmother moved to Capri, which I gather was quite a shock to my mother, and I don't think it was greeted terribly enthusiastically by my father either. But they did, and they stayed there and they never returned. When we left Capri, they moved to Rapallo and lived in a hotel there. We would visit them in the summer. And they belonging to an older generation, remained one hundred percent American throughout, unaffected by anything Italian to the point where my grandfather even bought a tiny plot of agricultural land so that he could grow American corn. You know, European corn is only for horses. So he got the seed and he grew it there. I happened to be there when the first crop came up and he realized that the Italians might not think very well of people eating corn, for all the reasons like it's really for horses and anyway it's messy. So he even went to the trouble of getting those little spits that you put into the end of corn to make it more