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all I see is hair.

I open the door and a bear says,

"Hello Ermanno, give me a Kiss."

I ask, "Who are you?"

and she, "Don't you recognize me, my son?"

No!

And she starts crying.

I say, "I'm sorry, Mamma",

and put my arms around her,

then this morning

when I woke up I felt so happy.

- Your mother was a bear?

- I'd just never realized it before.

I kept dreaming about vultures,

hyenas, crocodiles...

Good for you.

I always have the same dream.

The same animal?

No, no animal at all.

I'm at a kind of wedding

with lots of people,

and then in she walks,

the woman I'm crazy about.

She ends up telling me,

"I want to make love with you, kiss me."

So what do you do?

I pass out.

- It's wonderful.

- What kind of animal is she?

It's her, the love of my life.

What kind of a dream is that?

It's like saying I like cherries

and in my dream I eat cherries.

It denotes a primitive subconscious.

- A Dream that won't come true?

- Come true!

If I like a woman,

I dream about her in a symbolic fashion,

she's a penguin bearing

the mythological baggage of penguins,

or she's a iguana, that's a mature dream.

- You think?

- What, me? Sigmund Freud thinks so.

Freud.

Dream about an animal?

Right on time, just starting.

Love thou thy dream,

all base love scorning.

Love thou the wind, and here take warning.

That dreams alone can truly be.

For this dream I come to thee.

He's the greatest living Arab poet.

Beautiful that poem, eh?

- Rips you apart.

- Sure does.

You'll hear the rest.

Fuad concluded with a homage to one

of his inspirational mentors.

Fuad, in these difficult days

for his home country,

decided to leave France

and go back to Baghdad.

Let's hope this senseless war

never breaks out.

Let's thank Fuad, goodbye to all.

Damn, I think it's over!

- Shall we go eat?

- I want to go and say hello to him.

Fuad, remember that name.

In four, five years' time,

he'll get the Nobel Prize.

It'll be a wrench to leave

Paris after 18 years...

- When will you go back to Baghdad?

- As soon as possible.

How much time do you need

to finish the book?

The publishers want it in September,

but I refuse to rush.

I'd like to spend at least

a week with you.

We'll find the time.

Goodbye, see you soon.

Attilio!

- Fuad!

- Where were you?

Back there, I got here a bit late

but I enjoyed the whole thing.

You've got fans here,

when I quoted you at the start

they all cheered, did you hear it?

Vittoria!

Your book.

Oh, thank you.

I'm losing my mind.

- Do you have time for dinner?

- Let's have dinner together.

Then I'll leave you to it.

Goodbye.

Dear Attilio, it's as

if no time has passed at all.

Attilio?

Fuad, thanks, I'll say goodbye then.

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