9= I read four-fifths, stopped for nearly a year, then finished it in a week. I stopped reading him because I was tired of him after eight volumes, but I enjoyed coming back to him. He went to London in this volume, after running a brother out of Paris. I'm sure I will never forget learning that in Georgian England gentlemen peed along the side of the road with their bare buttocks facing passerbys. No problem, said a native to Casanova, for who would want to look? Gad. ( )