![]() ![]() And it is a feeling that you have wherever you look. And you really do feel as though you're in the middle of some play, some drama. BERENDT: Well, later, yes, he said, `Well, when I told you I was telling you the opposite of what I meant.' But as Mary McCarthy says, everybody thinks they're the first to notice that the buildings all look like painted stage sets. SIMON: Including what he was saying to you then, I gather. ![]() `We mean precisely the opposite of what we say.' Well, part of that was charm. ![]() Venetians never tell the truth,' he said. Count Girolamo Marcello said to me, `Everyone in Venice is acting. SIMON: You were warned that everyone in Venice is acting, weren't you? ![]() JOHN BERENDT (Author): Pleasure to be here. Berendt's new book is called "The City of Falling Angels." And John Berendt joins us from our studios in New York. John Berendt's new book is out, 11 1/2 years after his last best-seller, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." This time the ancient, intoxicating, infuriating and irreplaceable city of Venice is the main stage for an astounding array of characters, who are by turn eccentric, outrageous, intriguing and precious in both the best and worst ways. ![]()
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