In those days hero was a simple label, the adventure magazines of schoolboys would have resounded with tales of men like Gordon, Livingstone, and Scott.

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Then in his early 20s, Mr. Graves drank a lot of Italian wine during those years ("probably Frascati we weren't connoisseurs in those days, " he said, naming the simple white wine made in Lazio, the province of Rome).

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In our neighborhood there was no other graffiti to speak of in those days, just this, the remnants of the hieroglyphics of our simple street games.

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