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Salvatore’s natural associates in Bologna should have been the small group of students from the South, predictable in their habits, the civilian brothel on Saturday nights, on Sundays their thick best suits which in some cases had been inherited or borrowed from their fathers. Since they could not get used to the Bolognese food in the university cafeteria, which seemed to them designed to poison the first generation of post-war doctors, they made an arrangement with a café run by a Neapolitan, where places were kept for them every day. During his first year Salvatore considered these habits and set himself up against them. ‘Any behaviour that is expected of you,’ he argued, ‘makes you less of an individual. As a doctor I shall have to know what is normal and take any variation from it as a danger signal. As a human being, I should do the opposite.’