“I wish I’d had your head at your age; I would have spared myself many mistaken turns,” said my father. “You, mistaken turns, Pro? Frankly, I can’t picture you even imagining a mistaken turn.” “That’s because you see me as a figure, not a human being. Worse yet: as an old figure. But there were. Mistaken turns, that is. Everyone goes through a period of traviamento—when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find
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