The story was written in pencil in a red and gold notebook that Truman Capote bought in Venice at Italy’s oldest paper shop, the Legatoria Piazzesi, an ancient little place with a faded blue and white sign.
A researcher who found the notebook in Capote’s papers and began to read it was transported to a mountain villa in Sicily where a Miss Iris Greentree sits with her morning cup of coffee and contemplates with great bitterness the gorgeousness of the landscape all around her. “Help! Help!” she says to herself. “Another day in paradise.”
