That reminds me—my Italian editor, Eduardo, once took me to see Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper in Milan. You have to make a special appointment. You enter the everything-controlled room through an air lock, and get fifteen minutes to look before you’re ushered out. And in that quick visit I saw how the picture is really a catalog of gesture. The body language transcends Italian or English. Honestly, all the emoticons are there in one painting.
