Listen, Jacopo, I thought of a good one: Urban Planning for Gypsies.” “Great,” Belbo said admiringly. “I have one, too: Aztec Equitation.” “Excellent. But would that go with Potio-section or the Adynata?” “We’ll have to see,” Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. “Potio-section . . .” He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. “Potio-section, as everybody knows, of course, is the art of slicing soup. No, no,” he said to Diotallevi. “It’s not a department, it’s a subject, like Mechanical Avunculogratulation or Pylocatabasis. They all fall under the heading of
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