Innocence. Julian Barnes

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.’