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As a "very powerful personage" I was somewhat disappointed, I would have expected someone less familiar. But it was already something that the always so dignified Aspasia slipped stealthily like a hotel mouse to go and consult the Magician of Naples. I was therefore on the right path.

I entered the consulting room with new confidence and immediately the Magician announced that he had just received a very high incognito character who had been almost a queen and I said that I was delighted and he rolled his hands around my head and observed that the forces of negativity were melting but that the melting was making him work hard, and in fact he was sweating, and then he asked me what I was thinking and I said I thought he was sweating and he looked annoyed and ordered me to think with my eyes closed.

After a while the Magician decided that I had been surrounded by negative forces again, so it was preferable to postpone it until the next day and in the meantime I thought a lot about him and with confidence because I had to stop opposing unconscious resistance, and this more or less he said the day after too although I tried to concentrate on his gaze, which, however, I had not yet been able to investigate whether he was magnetic or not because while we were eye to eye I always turned away laughing, as in that game that consists in staring fixedly and losing whoever laughs first and I always lost, and so to avoid laughing in his face I ended up looking the other way and the Magician said that this was not okay, that this was not the way to collaborate and I was seized by remorse in not making him lose his precious free time.