Which only goes to show, ladies and gentlemen, how unwise it is to believe all you're told.
That concluded Guido's lecture. Most of his listeners were profoundly impressed and surveyed the ruined amphitheater with awe.
Only one of them was sceptical enough to strike a note of doubt.
When is all this supposed to have happened?” he asked.
“I need hardly remind you,” said Guido, who was never at a loss for words,
that Empress Harmonica was a contemporary of the celebrated philosopher Nauseous the Elder.”
Understandably reluctant to admit his total ignorance of when the celebrated philosopher Nauseous the Elder lived,
the sceptic merely nodded and said, “Ah yes, of course.”
All the other tourists were thoroughly satisfied. Their visit had been well worthwhile, they declared,
and no guide had ever presented them with such a graphic and interesting account of ancient times.
When Guido modestly held out his peaked cap, they showed themselves correspondingly generous. Even the sceptic dropped a few coins into it.
Guido, incidentally, had never told the same story twice since Momo's arrival on the scene; he would have found that far too boring.
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