Ideas. Synthesis. Disharmony.

[Elsa Morante] had an uncanny ability to know when to help. Allen Midgette recalls how sometimes he was so poor he would go three or four days without food and just as he thought he was going to starve to death, Elsa would appear and take him out to lunch. Another time, Allen found a broken piggy bank lying on the floor of his tiny apartment in Trastevere with a 20,000 lire note next to it. Elsa, he guessed, had thrown the piggy bank through his window.