Body and soul

One of the editors of the Enciclopedia Einaudi invited me one day to write the entry for 'body'. I told him I felt honoured and perplexed, and instinctively asked him who was going to be writing the entry for 'soul'. "There's no plan for such an entry," he immediately replied, as though I'd asked something improper. At that moment I realized we would never have seen eye to eye.

- Roberto Calasso, The Art of the Publisher