I came up with this hypothesis in my seminario di greco yesterday afternoon, when i was staring , mesmerised, as one of the boys in the front row, perched keenly on the edge of his seat, hanging on every word the professor said, continually ran the metal ball from his tongue piercing in a gliding motion across his lips. I just about managed to tear my eyes away for long enough to notice he also had one eyebrow and one ear pierced and perhaps resembled the punkabestia slightly more than the others. I looked at the other students in the front row, almost all boys, almost all liberally pierced, frowning beneath their floppy raven hair at a blackboard speckled with digammas. It is not usual for Italian students to call out in lectures, however, aforementioned boy
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