When you exit this state of mind, you have to act on the first thought that comes into your head and set off in search of the address you’ve been given, and having found the right apartment building and discovered that the list of names on the door includes Studio U.E., you explain to the porter that you’re there to meet U.E. Next, you have to make an intrepid journey to Milan armed with Eco’s private address and Origen’s treatise Peri Euches (On Prayer), which describes in detail the inner state necessary for prayer. Then you have to wait six months, ask an old friend of his to write a personal recommendation and send a letter to his secretary requesting a meeting. First, you have to spend three months searching the internet, seeking out everyone he might possibly know, scouring Italian university telephone directories and questioning all his secretaries, literary agents and colleagues, only to arrive at the conclusion that he ‘probably even has difficulty finding himself’ and deducing that he just doesn’t respond to letters, faxes or e-mails, because ‘if someone really has something important to say to me they’ll find a way of doing so’.
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