ife, beyond the hourly wage of his stipulated salary, with inflation index, family grant, and cost-of-living allowance" (2). He dreams of eating fresh mushrooms, and tells his family about them. His children, who have lived in the city all their lives, do not even know what mushrooms are. Marcovaldo worries that someone else will find the mushrooms, and he will not even tell his family where they are for fear that someone will harvest them before he can. He is particularly worried that Amadigi, the street-cleaner, will get the mushrooms first. It is interesting to note that Marcovaldo dislikes Amadigi "perhaps because of those eyeglasses that ex
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