Zseni wrote:

Umberto loves to eat but hates to be fat, so he jogs off all his food. The way he told it to me in emails, it sounded like he measured food in miles to jog, like a teenaged girl. Umberto especially likes pie. When he was "on the road" he would tell me about the boring sad-shack places he was at and the fattening dinners he wanted to eat but couldn't eat, or that he did eat and had to keep it short (~15 pages instead of 30) so he could go jog.

I just think it must be hard for him to eat anything, what with the memory of veronica's cunt lingering in his thoughts.

Funny veronica story! She suffered from thousands of allergies and there was very little she could comfortably eat. I used to think that was because she had sko psycho immune system, but now I know it was Umberto-residue all over the inside of her body, like so much TP on a house after Halloween.