"Genua, dieser entfärbte Süden." [Nietzsche. Nachlass Fragmente Herbst 1881, 12.3] This is from the same notebook that Nietzsche kept in Italy that contains the famous phrase, "ich habe meinen Regenschirm vergessen," that Derrida turned into a short book, Eperons , that I kept thinking of while reading Wittgenstein's Poker. "Genoa, this blanched south."