A dozen elderly townsmen, shabby and uncouth, walked into the forest and sat down to a modest colazione.... The predominant gesture seemed to be ritually limited to this or that fist crumpling brown paper or coarse gazette paper or baker's paper (the very lightweight and inefficient sort), and discarding the crumpled bit in quiet, abstract fashion.

A famous international agency, known as the VPL, handled Very Private Letters.... fantastically priced ... Van retrieved a batch of five letters, each in its VPL pink silk-paper case.