Connecting the dots

December in Venice

“Cambridge, Massachusetts?” - curiously enquired American fellow. I was not prepared for this at all. It took me years to figure out how to answer loaded “Where are you from?” for people to lose interest immediately and to avoid further interrogation. Answer “From Cambridge” worked until now perfectly. “No”, - I stumbled, - “normal, I mean, original, Cambridge UK.” We are in Venice, in the middl…