It’s an undefined them, because I don’t know anything about them-I met them in a classroom where, as I said, I taught Italian. But I don’t want to talk about me I want to talk about them. Years ago I taught Italian to foreigners. It doesn’t really matter how much you’ve suffered: you’ll still always be luckier than someone else, and no matter who you are you’ll still feel the subtle relief and twinge of guilt at having avoided misfortune. When you know someone much worse off than you, when you see a bomb go off on TV on the other side of the world, everything that you’ve been through is no longer proportionally relevant on the scale of human suffering and you tell yourself I am, for the moment, lucky. Involuntarily, in life, we think proportionally. Okay, let’s take a coffee break and then we’ll get back to the virtual machine. Do you all know what a virtual machine is? You all know? Yes? No? Yes? On the count of three: one two three? (they laugh). So, if you’re using a Mac or the latest version of Windows, take this flash drive and install the Virtual Machine I’ve prepared for you. Just a moment please (they all look at me: they’re recent graduates, twenty-four, twenty-seven years old), then you can try out the program and do what you have to do, but before you download it be aware that it isn’t compatible with Macs or the latest version of Windows.
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