Ida Vitale

Byobu discovered once and for all the severe annoyance entailed by the existence of individuals who never pronounce fully sincere words. This can happen to the best of us.

Between one memory and another and from frogs to toads, Byobu, obeying an irrational urge, reaches out his hand and strokes the toad’s back or, more precisely, what on a human being would be a shoulder.