#1956395 IADES - 2022 - Diplomata (Terceiro Secretário)

I look about the room where I have been at work for almost a quarter century. Proofs of unread novels accumulate on the coffee table. I sit at a large table that was in the house when I bought it. Everything since Burr has been written at this table. Lately we have acquired a television set to watch the news on CNN and old movies. Videocassettes are beginning to crowd out the books. To the left of the fireplace, a chiaroscuro Neapolitan painting by Viola. “Typical of early eighteenth-century South German painting”, boomed the journalist Joe Alsop. As Joe was an expert on everything, he was generally wrong on almost everything, particularly his subject, politics. For thirty years we were losing to Communism, according to Joe; he was a romantic goose, but endearing.
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Ordinarily, I don’t think much about the past. A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. Apparently, I am unlike others in this. In fact, everyone I’ve put that question to has a list of times and places and people to be revisited. I am only at home in the present, and view with dislike the numerous letters from biographers. On my desk there are now two new requests for recollection — of Alec Guinness and Terry Southern. Who next? I like both, but what on earth has one got to say about either that will be interesting? Little anecdotes are not my style. Of course, I could review their life work, but I charge for writing reviews.

VIDAL, Gore. Palimpsest — a memoir. London: Penguin, 1996, pp. 147-8.

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above, decide whether the statements below are right (C) or wrong (E).

In the sentence “look about the room”, about is used as adverb rather than a preposition