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Gazofilacio.
Via Laudator Temporis Acti, a quote from Clive James, “Gianfranco Contini”: There is an untranslatable Italian word for the mental bank account you acquire by memorizing poetry: it is a gazofilacio. Contini believed that an accumulation of such treas
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