1. Do you use the word appetite in contexts other than food?
—the gypsy guitarist in the Plaça Reial deep in the Barri Gòtic
2. If you do, do you agree that Americans want fame more than security or wealth or salvation?
where peals of bells broke on the jóvenes’ heads like waves, like more
than waves
3. Do you think we are made ridiculous by this appetite?
she was one of them, the jóvenes, moonlight on the palm trees, saffron on
her fingers
4. Do you think that American appetites are stronger than those of the English, say, because we have more hope of gratifying them?
leaning against the fountain of the nymphs holding a platter
5. If you have a strong appetite for anything, do you boast of it?
as she watched, the guitarist lowered his face to the mouth of the guitar
6. Do you despise other people’s appetites?
like you’d eat a soft-finned fruit
7. Do you think we should try to curb our appetites?
if you couldn’t bear, that is, to waste the juice
8. Do you look forward to the time when old age will diminish your appetites?
those were days she spent picking muscat grapes, hitchhiking the Costa
Brava
9. Do you think old age will diminish your appetites?
days when she owned just one pair of sandals
10. Do you know anyone who admits his appetites have been diminished by the gathering years?
days with legs so brown from sun that her bare feet wore sandal-ghosts,
crisp stripes of moonlit flesh
11. Where will it all end?
so even naked, in his bed, she was shod for flight.