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There is no cheese like ours.
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You are not Sicilian, are you?
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Why not?
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A Sicilian
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never eats in the morning.
You are American,
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aren't you?
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Yes.
I am American.
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For fifteen years.
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I have cousins in America.
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An uncle and cousins.
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And in what place?
In New York or in Argentina?
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I don't know.
In America.
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From what place are you?
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I?
I was born in Syracuse.
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No. From what place
are you in America?
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From... from New York.
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How goes it in New York?
Is it going well?
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One doesn't get rich there.
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What does that matter?
It can go well without getting rich.
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Better, in fact.
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Who knows!
There's also
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unemployment there.
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And what does unemployment matter?
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It is not
always the unemployment
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that does the damage.
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That's not it. I am not
unemployed. None of us is.
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We work.
In the gardens.
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Did you return for unemployment?
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No.
I returned for a few days.
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Right. And you eat in the morning.
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Does everyone
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in America
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eat in the morning?
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I think so.
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And at midday does everyone eat?
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In one way or another...
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And in the evening?
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Well or badly.
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Bread? Bread and cheese?
Bread and vegetables? Bread and meat?
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Yes, bread and other things.
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They are eaten in salad.
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In America?
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No, here by us.
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Here by us?
In salad with oil?
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Yes, with oil.
And a little garlic, and salt.
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And with bread?
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Surely, with bread.
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I always ate that
as a boy.
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Ah, you ate that?
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It went well for you
then, too?
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So-so.
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You never ate
oranges in salad, did you?
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Yes, sometimes.
But there is not always oil.
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It is not always
a good year.
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The oil can cost a lot.
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And there is not always bread.
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If one doesn't sell the oranges
there is no bread.
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But why?
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Is it so difficult
to sell the oranges?
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They won't sell.
No one wants them.
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Abroad they don't want them.
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And the boss pays us this way,
he gives us the oranges.
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And we don't know what to do.
No one wants them.
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We come to Messina on foot
and no one wants them.
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We go to see if they want them
in Reggio, in Villa San Giovanni,
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and they don't want them.
No one wants them.
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We go back and forth,
we pay the way,
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we don't eat bread,
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no one wants them.
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As if they were poison.
Accursed oranges.
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But what did this fellow want?
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He seemed to protest.
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He had it with someone.
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I would say he had it with everyone.
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I would say so, too.
He was a starveling.
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If I had been down there
I would have arrested him.
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You would only have done your duty.
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Naturally.
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Such fellows are always
to be arrested.
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Definitely.
You never know.
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Every starveling is
a dangerous man.
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Capable of anything.
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Of robbery.
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That goes without saying.
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Of stabbing.
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No doubt.
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And also of political crimes.
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Whatever class... Whatever status...
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Be they ignorant... Be they educated...
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No difference.
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Shopkeepers...
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Lawyers...
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My grocer in Lodi...
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And in Bologna,
a lawyer...
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You see,
they have no respect.
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They have no consideration.
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But it is because we are Sicilians.
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That's it,
because we are Sicilians.
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But in this country, in Sicily,
it's even worse.
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In Mussumeli,
I...
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In Sciacca, my mother
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does not say what I am,
she is ashamed to say it,
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and she says I am
an employee at the Land Registry.
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An employee at the Land Registry!
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It is a question of preconceptions.
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I know. Old prejudices.
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I don't know
why I return there.
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And do I know, perhaps?
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What do we get out of it?
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Rotted bowels.
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Poisoned blood.
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You didn't smell the stink?
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The stink?
What stink?
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What? You didn't smell it?
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I don't know.
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I don't understand
what stink you are talking about.
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Unbelievable! He doesn't know
what stink I am talking about.
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I really don't understand.
I don't smell any stink.
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The gentleman is talking about
the stink that came from the corridor.
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Stink was coming from the corridor?
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That's unbelievable!
He didn't smell it!
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The gentleman is talking about
the stink of those two.
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Those two?
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Those two at the window? They stank?
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Ah, the stink, the stink!
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It's strange.
There's no place in the world
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where they are in worse regard
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than in Sicily.
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And yet they are
almost all Sicilians, in Italy,
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who have this trade.
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All Sicilians?
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Really!
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For fifteen years I've toured
through Italy. I have lived
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in Florence,
I have lived in Bologna, in Turin,
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and I live in Milan,
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and wherever I have found a Sicilian,
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he had this trade.
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That's what my cousin says, too,
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who travels.
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Bah,
besides, it's understandable.
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We are a sad people.
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Very sad. Gloomy even.
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Always ready,
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all of us, to see things darkly, always
hoping for something else, better,
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and always despairing
of having it. Always discouraged.
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Always beaten down. And always
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with the temptation in us
of taking one's life.
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It could be that it is true.
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But how does that enter into
taking up such a trade?
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I don't know how to explain it,
but I believe it enters into it.
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What does one do
when he abandons himself?
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When he throws himself away as lost?
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He does what he hates doing most.
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I am from Leonforte,
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up in the Val Demone
between Enna and Nicosia,
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I am a landowner
with three beautiful daughters,
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one more beautiful than the other,
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and I have a horse
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on which I ride across my lands
and then I believe I am a king.
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But it doesn't seem to me
to be everything,
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believing I am a king
when I mount my horse,
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and I would like
to acquire some other knowledge
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and feel myself to be different
with something new in my soul,
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I would give all that I possess
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and the horse, too,
the lands,
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to feel myself to be
more at peace with men,
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as one who has
nothing to cause self-reproach.
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Not that I had any
particular cause for self-reproach.
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Not at all. And I'm also not talking
in the sense of the sacristy.
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But it seems to me
that I am not at peace with men.
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I would like to have a fresh conscience
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and that would require
me to fulfill other duties,
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not the usual, other,
new duties and higher,
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regarding other men, because
in fulfilling the usual duties
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there is no satisfaction and one
remains, as if one had done nothing,
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discontented with oneself,
disappointed.
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I believe man is ripe
for other things. Not only
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not to steal, not to kill, etc.
And to be a good citizen.
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I believe he is ripe
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for other things,
for other duties, new ones.
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That is what one feels, I believe,
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the lack of other duties, other
things to fulfill. Things to do
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for our conscience in a new sense.
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I believe you are right.
Are you a professor?
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Nothing to laugh at, little Grandpa.
Nothing to laugh at.
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Ah I believe that is just it.
We feel no satisfaction any more
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in the fulfillment of our duty, of
our duties. To us the fulfillment is
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indifferent.
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We feel bad all the same.
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And I
believe, it is just because of this,
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because these are duties
that are too old,
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too old and become too easy,
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without significance any more
for the conscience.
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But really
you are not a professor?
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Have I the air of a professor?
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I am not ignorant,
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I can read a book, if I want to,
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but I am not a professor. I was
with the Salesians as a child,
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but I am not a professor.
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You will permit me, won't you?
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By God, why not?
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It seemed to me
I had seen you get off in Catania.
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Ah, you saw me?
But
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I accompanied a friend
to the train for Caltanissetta.
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I got back on at the last minute.
In the last car.
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I hardly had time.
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I was preoccupied for my valises!
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Yes,
you never know.
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True,
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eh? You never know. With these
nasty fellows going around.
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I am an employee at the Land Registry.
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Oh, really?
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And what are you doing?
Are you going home on holiday?
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Yes, I am going on leave.
I am going to Sciacca, to my village.
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To Sciacca.
And you are coming from far away?
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From Bologna.
There I am
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an employee. And my wife
is from Bologna. My children also.
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And you are going to Sciacca this way?
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Yes, this way.
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Syracuse, Spaccaforno,
Modica, Genisi, Donnafugata...
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Vittoria, Falconara, Licata.
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Girgenti...
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Agrigento, please.
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But wouldn't it be more convenient
to proceed via Caltanissetta?
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Yes, it would be more convenient
and would have saved me eight lire.
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But here you always go along the sea.
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You like the sea?
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I don't know.
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I believe I like it.
In any case it's this line
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I like.
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You are stopping in Syracuse?
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I am stopping there.
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You live
there?
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No,
I don't live there.
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But have you no one
in Syracuse?
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You are going there
for business then.
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No, no.
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You have a beautiful baritone voice.
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Didn't you know that?
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Oh, as for knowing,
I know it.
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Naturally.
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You could not
have lived till today
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without knowing.
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Too bad that you are
an employee at the Land Registry
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instead of singing.
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Yes.
I would have liked that.
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In Falstaff, in Rigoletto,
on all the stages of Europe...
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Or even on the street,
what does it matter?
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Always better than being an employee.
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Oh, yes, perhaps...
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We are in Syracuse.
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I believe I will get
a connection right away.
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But what will you do in Syracuse?
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How did you recognize me?
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I ask myself that, too.
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Come, I have
a herring on the fire.
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You will see how good it is.
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Did we eat that
when I was a child?
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00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,320
And how!
260
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Herrings in winter
and pepperoni in summer.
261
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,920
That was always our way of eating.
Don't you remember?
262
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,840
And beans with cardoons.
263
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,280
Yes, beans with cardoons,
264
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,440
you always would have wanted
a second plate. And lentils also,
265
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,720
cooked with onions,
dried tomatoes, and bacon...
266
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,480
And a twig of rosemary, no?
267
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,080
Yes.
And a twig of rosemary.
268
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,480
And of that, too, would I always
have wanted a second plate?
269
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,640
And how! You were like Esau...
270
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,000
You would have given
your primogeniture
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for a second plate of lentils.
272
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,280
It seems to me
I see you returning from school
273
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at two, at three in the afternoon,
on the train.
274
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,360
Yes, on the freight train,
in the baggage car.
275
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At first I alone,
276
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,742
then I and Felix,
then I, Felix and Liborio...
277
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All of you sparrows,
with your heads full of hair,
278
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,600
with muzzles black,
hands always black.
279
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,240
And right away you would ask:
Are there lentils today, Mama?
280
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,280
In these line-keepers' houses
281
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,720
where we lived.
One got off the train at the station,
282
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:53,000
San Cataldo, Serradifalco, Acquaviva,
all the places we have been,
283
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,960
and one had to go 1 or 2 kilometers
on foot to arrive at home...
284
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,520
Yes, sometimes even three kilometers.
285
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,240
The train went past and I knew
you were underway along the line,
286
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,960
and I put the lentils on to warm,
287
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,760
the herring to roast and then
I would hear you call: "Land, land!"
288
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,640
Land?
Why land?
289
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,560
Surely,
land! Some kind of game of yours.
290
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,880
And then once
in Racalmuto,
291
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,960
the line-keepers' house was
on an incline
292
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,200
and the train had to go slower,
293
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,440
and you learned
to jump from the moving train,
294
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,280
and you jumped off
in front of the house,
295
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,200
and I was terribly afraid
you would fall under
296
00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:49,960
and I waited
297
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,480
outside with the stick.
298
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,320
And you beat us?
299
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,240
And how!
300
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,040
I broke your legs with that stick.
301
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,960
And I even left you
302
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,040
without food in some cases.
303
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,840
Don't you make soup
for yourself?
304
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,760
Do you speak for me?
I've almost never eaten soup
305
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,000
in my life. I cooked
for you and your father
306
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,640
but for me that was my food:
307
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,000
Herrings in winter,
roast pepperoni in summer,
308
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,040
much oil, much bread.
309
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,600
Always that?
310
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,480
With olives, too, naturally,
311
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,200
and sometimes pork, sausages,
312
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,320
when we had a pig.
313
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,200
Some years we had a pig
in these line-keepers' houses.
314
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,400
We raised it on prickly pear
and then slaughtered it...
315
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,160
We had chickens, too, no?
316
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,680
Yes, we had some, naturally.
317
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,640
We made "mostarda"...
318
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,320
We made all sorts of things...
319
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,000
Sun dried tomatoes,
pastry from prickly pear...
320
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,400
It went well for us.
We had
321
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,920
wire netting!
322
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,320
They were places with malaria
for the most part.
323
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,880
With the cicadas!
324
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,320
I believed the cicadas were
the malaria!
325
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360
Perhaps that is why you caught so many?
326
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,400
But I believed their song was
the malaria,
327
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,520
not them...
Did I catch them?
328
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,240
And how!
329
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,400
Twenty,
thirty every time.
330
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,040
I imagine I caught them as crickets.
331
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,376
What did I do with them?
332
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,280
I have an idea you ate them.
333
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,680
Yes. You and your brothers.
334
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,320
How is that possible?
335
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Perhaps you were hungry.
336
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:21,960
We were hungry?
337
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,640
Perhaps yes.
338
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,880
But if it went well for us at home?
339
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,880
Yes. Your father received money
340
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,480
at every month's end and then
it went well for us for ten days,
341
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,760
we were the envy of all the peasants
and the people of the sulphur mines.
342
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,400
But after the first ten days
343
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,640
we became like them.
We ate snails.
344
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,840
Yes,
and wild chicory.
345
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,720
They only ate snails?
346
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,920
Yes, all the poor
347
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,880
eat only snails, usually.
348
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,360
And we
were poor
349
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,200
the last twenty days of each month.
350
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,640
And we ate snails for twenty days!
351
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,800
Snails and wild chicory.
352
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,880
I imagine they were good,
after all.
353
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,160
Very good.
354
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,520
You can prepare them in so many ways.
355
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,720
Simply boiled, for example.
Or with garlic and tomatoes.
356
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,600
Or floured and fried.
357
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,760
What an idea!
With the shell?
358
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,880
But of course!
359
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,920
You eat them
by sucking them out of the shell.
360
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,720
Don't you remember?
361
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,400
I remember, I remember.
362
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,920
All the taste is in sucking the shell,
it seems to me.
363
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,440
You pass hours
with sucking...
364
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,800
He was a great man,
Grandfather?
365
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,160
And how! Didn't you know that?
366
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,800
He was a great man. He could
work eighteen hours a day,
367
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,680
and he was a great socialist,
368
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,640
a great hunter,
369
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,160
and great on a horse
in the procession of St. Joseph.
370
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,680
He rode in
the procession of St. Joseph?
371
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,600
And how!
He was a great rider,
372
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,760
better than all here in the village,
and also in Piazza Armerina.
373
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,376
How do you think they could have
had the cavalcade without him?
374
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,657
But he was a socialist...
375
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,480
He was a socialist.
376
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,640
He could neither read nor write
but he understood politics
377
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,440
and he was a socialist.
378
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,240
How could he ride behind
St. Joseph if he was a socialist?
379
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,400
The socialists
don't believe in St. Joseph.
380
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,920
What a beast you are!
Your grandfather
381
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,280
was not a socialist like
all the others. He was a great man.
382
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,920
He could believe in St. Joseph
and be a socialist.
383
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,480
He had a mind for a thousand things
together. And he was a socialist
384
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,760
because he understood politics.
But he could
385
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,400
believe in St. Joseph. He said
nothing against St. Joseph.
386
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,480
But the priests,
387
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,800
I imagine that they found him contrary.
388
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,800
But of what import was that to him,
the priests?
389
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,280
But the procession
390
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,040
was a matter of the priests!
391
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,600
How ignorant you are!
392
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,440
The procession
was horses and men on horses.
393
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,760
It was a cavalcade.
394
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,640
The cavalcade
395
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:07,080
departed from over there.
There is a small church
396
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,000
that you don't see on the mountain
but they lit it up inside and out
397
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,280
and it became a star.
398
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:22,000
And the cavalcade departed from
the church with lanterns and bells
399
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,360
and descended the mountain.
400
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,840
It was always by night, naturally.
One saw the lanterns
401
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,520
and I knew
that my father was at the head,
402
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,640
a great rider,
403
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,600
and all waited on the piazza below,
404
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,680
and on the bridge.
405
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,200
And the cavalcade entered the woods,
406
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,400
one saw the lanterns no more,
one only heard the bells.
407
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,880
It took a long time and then
the cavalcade appeared on the bridge,
408
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,920
with all the noise of the bells
409
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,320
and with lanterns
and with him at the head
410
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,840
as if he felt like a king...
411
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,960
It seems to me I remember.
412
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,440
Nonsense!
413
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,760
You were three years old
the only time you saw it.
414
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,400
But why do you look at me?
415
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,160
May I not look at you?
416
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,920
Bah, if you want to look at me,
look at me...
417
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,360
But what idea
came to Papa that he went away
418
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,080
with another woman
419
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,480
in old age?
420
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:47,920
What do you know of that?
421
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,720
He wrote it to me.
422
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,880
The coward! He wrote to you
423
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,440
that he saw another woman and left me
424
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,160
and went away with her!
What a coward!
425
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,400
Why?
Isn't it true?
426
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,480
How can it be true?
427
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,080
Don't you remember any more
what a coward he was?
428
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,560
Coward?
429
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:12,000
But yes. When he beat me
and then began to weep
430
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,080
and asked me for pardon...
431
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,880
One sees it displeased him.
432
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,800
It displeased him!
433
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,920
As if I didn't
know how to defend myself,
434
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,320
and didn't give it to him, too.
Perhaps that displeased him.
435
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,040
And also when I gave birth,
he wept.
436
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,080
I had labor pains and I didn't weep,
437
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,960
and he wept. Do you understand
what a coward he was?
438
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,600
I imagine it displeased him
to see you suffer.
439
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,880
It displeased him! Why should
it displease him? I was not dying.
440
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,960
Better he had given a hand and helped,
441
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,200
instead of weeping.
442
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,400
What could he do?
443
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,560
What could he do?
444
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,360
Don't you do anything
when your wife gives birth?
445
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,400
Well,
I hold her...
446
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,960
You see that you do something.
447
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,880
But he
didn't even hold me.
448
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,600
One was alone in these solitudes,
449
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,400
and there was so much to do,
450
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,080
warm water to prepare,
451
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,440
but he could only weep. Or he ran
452
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,480
to the next line-keepers' house
to call the women from there...
453
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,360
That pleased him,
to have other women in the house,
454
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,000
but they didn't come right away,
455
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,600
and I needed help,
456
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,520
I cried to him to help me,
to hold me, to make me walk,
457
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,920
and he wept.
He didn't want to see.
458
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,160
No, he didn't want to see.
459
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,840
You boys wanted to see. You came
out to the landing of your room
460
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,720
and stood where he was,
461
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:01,880
but he would not lift his eyes
and you had yours wide open.
462
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,960
You looked at him weeping,
463
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,000
me trying to walk
holding onto the furniture,
464
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,480
and then I cried to him
to send you away,
465
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,056
but he, nothing, he didn't understand,
466
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,160
didn't lift his eyes,
was afraid to look.
467
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,320
And one time
I felt the head of the baby outside,
468
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,440
it was the third one of you,
469
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,080
and I threw myself on the bed
and said to him: Run, it's here!
470
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,760
And do you know what he did?
471
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,280
He raised his arms to the heavens
472
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:43,680
and began to invoke God
as if he were reciting his tragedies.
473
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,880
Yes, he did that...
474
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,440
And the baby looked at me,
became violet in the face,
475
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,600
it was a beautiful baby,
I didn't want it to suffocate!
476
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,880
I suppose someone came then.
477
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,720
It was two o'clock at night
and no one came...
478
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,760
But I took up the bottle of water
that was on the night table,
479
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,160
a great rage had seized me,
and threw it at your father's head.
480
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,320
Did you hit him?
481
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,200
By God!
482
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,000
I have a good aim: I hit him,
483
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,920
and then he persuaded himself,
to help me and he helped me,
484
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,280
pulled the baby out safe and sound
485
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,960
as if it were another man and not him,
486
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:41,640
but naturally
I pushed more than he pulled,
487
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,000
he had a face all blood and sweat.
488
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,520
You see that he was not a coward?
He did not lack courage.
489
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,480
Rather he had something more,
490
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,680
that left him when the blood flowed.
491
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,160
Something more?
492
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,320
What more do you want him to have?
He was not a man like my father!
493
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,320
He was a peasant
494
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,160
who could hoe the earth
eighteen hours a day and had courage,
495
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,560
and he did everything
when my mother gave birth.
496
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Where are you going?
497
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,320
We also had winter melons.
498
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,240
I kept them
under the straw in the chicken roost.
499
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,000
Now I keep them there
in the attic.
500
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,000
I have about ten.
501
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,840
That's it.
502
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,440
Is none of our furniture here?
503
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,400
No furniture.
504
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,040
There are dishes
and the kitchen things
505
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,600
of ours.
506
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,280
And the blankets, the linens.
507
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,880
The furniture we sold
when we came here.
508
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,880
But how did you decide
to come here?
509
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,720
I decided.
510
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,840
That is the house of my father
and there is no rent to pay.
511
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,960
He built it himself,
a bit every Sunday.
512
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,160
Where would you have had us go?
513
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,200
I don't know.
514
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,040
But it's very far from the railway
here.
515
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,080
How can you live
without at least seeing the line?
516
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,840
What does it matter to see the line?
517
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,120
I meant...
518
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,960
without ever hearing a train pass?
519
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,680
What does it matter,
to hear a train pass?
520
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,040
I believed it would matter to you.
521
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,800
You went out
522
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,920
and stood with the flag
at the barrier when it passed.
523
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,680
Yes,
if I didn't send one of you.
524
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,760
There was a place,
525
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,840
where we lived near the station.
526
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:25,840
Serradifalco, I believe.
527
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,920
We didn't see it, but we
could hear the freight cars
528
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,694
bumping one against the other
during the shuntings...
529
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,000
Cut the melon!
530
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,000
Yes, then.
What happened about Papa then?
531
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,960
Why talk about it?
For me
532
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,680
it's all the same
with him or without him.
533
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,560
And if for him
it is the same without me,
534
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,960
it doesn't matter to me.
535
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,600
It is true, then,
that he went with another?
536
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,120
Went?
Nonsense, went.
537
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,720
I sent him away.
538
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,640
It was my house here.
539
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,240
Oh madame!
He had become boring
540
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,000
and you sent him away?
541
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,120
Well, I endured him for many years,
542
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,520
and now it was too much,
543
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,920
I couldn't endure it, to see him
enamored at his age.
544
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,320
But he was always like that with women.
545
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,680
He always needed
other women in the house
546
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,360
and to play the cockerel
among the women.
547
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,200
You know that he wrote poetry.
548
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,960
He wrote it for them.
549
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,400
That was nothing bad.
550
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,560
And that they looked down on me
551
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,040
because they were called queens
in this poetry,
552
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:06,880
that was not bad?
553
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:12,240
But yes. And even
554
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,160
queen bees!
Dirty wives of line-keepers
555
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,720
and teachers
and stationmasters' wives...
556
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,200
Queen bees!
557
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:27,080
But how could they know
that it was about them?
558
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,360
When one saw that he was nice
to her
559
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,760
and at the fêtes
drank to the most beautiful
560
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,320
looking at her,
and then read this poetry,
561
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:43,440
his arms extended toward her,
562
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,360
what more was needed to know it?
563
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,120
He was a great fool.
He could not be without an uproar.
564
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,400
Every six, seven days
he had to be up to something:
565
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,560
Call together
the railwaymen of all the line
566
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,120
with their wives and daughters
567
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,840
and play the cockerel among them.
568
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,400
There were periods when
there were meetings every evening,
569
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,320
at our house or another,
dances or card games or recitations.
570
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,560
And him at the center
of the fête with shining eyes...
571
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,960
In that he was great.
He never tired of dancing
572
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,640
and he never missed a round.
573
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,440
If the record was finished
he ran over and changed it,
574
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,000
and he came back,
grabbed a lady and danced.
575
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,520
And he knew how to direct the quadrille
576
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,360
with a witty remark at every phrase...
577
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,240
And he could play the accordion
and bagpipes, too.
578
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,120
Doesn't it matter to you to be alone?
579
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,880
If you think I must
miss the company of your father,
580
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,280
you are deceiving yourself.
581
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,680
Why?
Didn't he give you good company?
582
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,200
I imagine
that he helped you
583
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,320
with washing up, too.
584
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,720
That does not mean
that I must feel alone
585
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,120
without him.
586
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,360
But he was a nice man!
587
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,280
One must not have him in the house,
a nice man!
588
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,160
It was my misfortune
that he was a nice man...
589
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,320
You see, your Grandfather
590
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,360
was not a nice man,
he did not call women queen bees,
591
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,840
he did not write poetry
592
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,000
for them...
593
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,280
I suppose he did not like them.
594
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,600
He liked them ten times more
than your father did.
595
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,080
But he didn't need to call them
queens. When he liked one,
596
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,200
he took her into the vale.
597
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,360
There are many
598
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,560
here in the village who still
remember him, and many in Piazza, too.
599
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,320
And you complain about Papa?
600
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,576
I have the idea
it would have been worse for you
601
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,616
with your character, to have been
the wife of Grandfather, for example.
602
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,240
Worse? Why worse?
603
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,520
Well, Grandfather
took them into the vale,
604
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,520
and Papa wrote them poetry.
605
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:03,680
I have the idea
606
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:06,080
these escapades into the vale
would have been
607
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:08,096
a harder outcome for you
than the poetry.
608
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:09,840
Not in the least!
609
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,280
All that was bad
was the poetry, with your father.
610
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,320
I would have been glad
611
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,560
if he had only
taken them into the vale.
612
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,000
He took them into the vale
and then he wrote them poetry?
613
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,640
Naturally, and called them queens,
treated them like queens.
614
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,600
He was a nice man.
615
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,840
And if one had a nice name,
such as Manon for example,
616
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:41,400
he appeared to go mad,
a ridiculous thing at his age!
617
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,280
Who had the name Manon?
618
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:49,160
The rider from the circus.
619
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,640
Because of her I sent him away.
Because she had the name Manon.
620
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,160
But he always treated them
like queens, which was bad,
621
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,720
that he treated them like queens,
not like dirty cows.
622
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,320
They came into my house
623
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,680
wives of railwaymen,
wives of peasants,
624
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,120
and they were impudent, tranquil,
625
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,640
they didn't lower their eyes,
626
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,320
they looked at me
627
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:19,256
as if they were who knows what.
628
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,400
And I could not look down
on them. That was bad.
629
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:25,960
He
630
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,800
Gave them to understand
that they were much more than I.
631
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,080
And they looked at me
as if they were
632
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,040
much more than I.
633
00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:56,080
You are a funny woman!
634
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,840
You would have wanted them
to feel like cows?
635
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,760
That I would have wanted. I would have
636
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,040
laughed about the whole thing.
637
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,920
Naturally.
638
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:12,200
It would not have mattered to me.
I would have laughed about it!
639
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,120
But he didn't treat them like cows...
640
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,720
Why should he have done that?
641
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,285
They had a husband, like you,
and children, too, like you...
642
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,360
Well, no one forced them
to play the cow.
643
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,040
Was it so dirty,
what they did?
644
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,800
Didn't they do the same as you did
645
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,880
with him? Or did they do
some other thing?
646
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,640
What other thing?
647
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,600
They did the same, naturally.
648
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,600
What else could they do?
649
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,960
And then?
They didn't do anything dirtier
650
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,840
than what you did with him, too...
651
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:55,880
Why
652
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,960
should he have treated them
like dirty cows?
653
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,680
But he was not their husband,
654
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,240
he
Was my husband.
655
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,680
And there is the difference?
656
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,096
I don't understand how you reason.
657
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,120
You were a dirty cow
658
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,200
when you did the thing
with other men?
659
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,720
Because I suppose you, too, will
660
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:22,760
have been into the vale?
661
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:25,576
You won't always have been
in the kitchen.
662
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,113
You also will have been
into the vale with someone?
663
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,840
Oh! With one!
664
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,000
With one!
Because another time it was a mistake
665
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,720
and that doesn't count.
666
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,080
A mistake?
How, a mistake?
667
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,040
It was a thing with a relative
668
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,400
while we were in Messina.
After the earthquake.
669
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,880
It was a matter of confusion in sum,
670
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,894
I was very young
and it was never talked about again.
671
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,560
And with this other one?
672
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,720
Oh! With this other one
it was by accident!
673
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,000
Was he a relative of ours, too?
674
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,880
No.
He was one I didn't know.
675
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,000
What do you find so astonishing?
You don't know how things went.
676
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:12,640
But where was that?
677
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,536
Were we already
at the line-keepers' houses?
678
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:16,920
We were in Acquaviva.
679
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,320
But we were all big
in Acquaviva.
680
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:22,640
It was after the war.
681
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,560
And then what?
682
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,200
Should I have asked your permission
683
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,240
if you were big?
684
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,760
You were eleven. You went
to school and you went to play.
685
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,520
It was a terrible summer.
There was no wasps,
686
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,320
there were no flies, there was nothing.
687
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,760
It must have been afternoon.
I had baked bread.
688
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,320
I was washing: We had
a basin outside by the well,
689
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,440
and it must have been afternoon
because the shadow
690
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,560
was just on the side of the basin.
691
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,040
He was a wayfarer.
692
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,080
With a little knapsack
for clothes to change,
693
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,680
and dressed as a soldier
without any stars,
694
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,680
an old reaper's hat on his head.
695
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,400
And he had taken off his shoes,
696
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,600
he carried them tied together
over his shoulder...
697
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:30,560
Did he come from far?
698
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,600
He told me
699
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,000
that he had come through Pietraperzia,
Mazzarino, Butera,
700
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:40,240
Terranova and a hundred other places.
701
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,000
But it seemed
702
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,280
that he had come directly
from where the war had just ended.
703
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:46,440
All on foot?
704
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,080
On foot.
705
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,920
On that day it had been
forty eight hours that he
706
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,000
had not encountered
a village or a living soul.
707
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,600
The last place
he had passed through was a farm
708
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:05,200
and the dogs would not let
wayfarers approach the farm.
709
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,960
So he told me
710
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,200
and meanwhile
he had drunk a pail of water.
711
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:13,120
Did he want nothing but water?
712
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,840
He demanded nothing, in truth.
713
00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:19,160
But I gave him a loaf of bread
714
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,280
that I had baked
not more than an hour before,
715
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,680
and I seasoned it
with oil, salt and oregano,
716
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,240
and he smelled the air,
the odor of the bread,
717
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,880
and said blessed God!
718
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,800
But in sum this, too, was
a passing thing.
719
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:02,400
No.
720
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,320
Then he was from these parts?
He was not a wayfarer?
721
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,440
He was a wayfarer.
722
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,840
He was going to Palermo
and had wandered through all of Sicily.
723
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,760
He was going to Palermo?
724
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,160
He was going
725
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,800
but he did not go.
He went as far as Bivona
726
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,880
and there he found work
in a sulphur mine;
727
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,720
He stayed there.
728
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,800
In Bivona? But Bivona
is far from Acquaviva.
729
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,040
About fifty kilometers.
All the villages
730
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,280
are about fifty kilometers away
731
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:35,840
from Acquaviva.
732
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,080
Casteltermini is nearer
than fifty kilometers.
733
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,120
Why didn't he stay in Casteltermini?
734
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,200
Perhaps there was no work
in Casteltermini.
735
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:51,560
Or perhaps he wanted to continue
toward Palermo and arrived at Bivona,
736
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,800
and there decided otherwise.
737
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:58,600
And he did fifty kilometers on foot
to come to find you?
738
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,560
Fifty to come and fifty to go back.
739
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:06,440
Did he reappear many times?
740
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,280
Various times.
741
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,960
He brought me small gifts.
742
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,000
Once he brought me a fresh honeycomb
743
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,360
that perfumed the whole house.
744
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,440
How is it he did not reappear?
745
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,520
Towards winter there was
746
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:29,400
a strike in the sulphur mines
and the peasants rebelled, too.
747
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:35,240
The railwaymen didn't strike. Trains
passed, loaded with gendarmes.
748
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:37,960
And there died
749
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:39,760
more than a hundred
750
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,280
in Bivona;
751
00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:44,080
Not of the gendarmes,
752
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,680
of them.
753
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,800
And you believe
he was among the dead?
754
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,720
I believe so.
755
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,000
Why else
756
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,200
wouldn't he have
757
00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,200
reappeared?
758
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,800
I'm talking to you, stranger.
759
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,560
Have you brought nothing
to sharpen
760
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,240
in this village?
761
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,680
Have you no sword to sharpen?
Have you no cannon to sharpen?
762
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,200
You don't have much to sharpen
763
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,280
in this village?
764
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,536
Not much that is deserving of it.
Not much that is worth the trouble.
765
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,880
Not much that gives pleasure.
766
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,480
You would well sharpen knives.
You would well sharpen scissors.
767
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,640
Knives?
Scissors?
768
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,520
Do you believe there still exist
769
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,240
knives and scissors in this world?
770
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,000
I had the idea, yes.
771
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,280
Do neither knives nor scissors exist
in this village?
772
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,760
Neither in this village nor in others.
773
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,640
I go through many villages
774
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,680
and there are fifteen or
twenty thousand souls I sharpen for;
775
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:29,720
But I never see
either knives or scissors.
776
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,240
But what do they give you to sharpen
777
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,240
if you never see knives or scissors?
778
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,160
That is what I always ask them.
779
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:40,776
What will you give me to sharpen?
780
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,160
Will you give me no sword?
Will you give me no cannon?
781
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,200
And I look
into their faces, into their eyes,
782
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:54,040
I see that what they give me
one cannot even call a nail.
783
00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:00,280
It gives pleasure to sharpen
a true blade. You can throw it
784
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,280
and it is an arrow.
785
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,560
You can take it in your hand
786
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,800
and it is a dagger.
787
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:13,600
Ah! If only everyone
always had a true blade.
788
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:14,880
Why?
789
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,840
Do you think something would happen?
790
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,840
I would have pleasure
to always sharpen a true blade.
791
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,040
Sometimes it seems to me
it would be enough
792
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:33,200
if everyone
had teeth and nails to sharpen.
793
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:39,360
I would sharpen them like
vipers' teeth, like leopards' claws.
794
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,160
Forty centesimi.
795
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:47,160
Four for bread. Four for wine.
And the taxes?
796
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:53,000
Four for taxes. Four for bread.
And the wine?
797
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:59,080
Four for wine. Four for taxes.
And the bread?
798
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:00,080
But why
799
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:01,738
don't you put it all together
800
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:03,240
and then divide?
801
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,360
Too risky.
802
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:09,640
Sometimes I would eat it all,
sometimes drink it all.
803
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,920
Keep it. I wanted to
take from you two more soldi
804
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:19,600
but God does not will it. It was
the two soldi that made the confusion.
805
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:22,280
Two for bread,
806
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,080
two for wine,
807
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:25,600
two for taxes.
808
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:32,480
You must excuse me.
809
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,560
I believed I could do it
because you are a stranger.
810
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,800
Oh, that is nothing. Two soldi
more or two soldi less...
811
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:40,400
The question is
812
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,480
one does not know
how to comport oneself
813
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:45,640
with strangers.
814
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:47,960
There are perhaps scissors sharpeners
815
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,640
who charge eight soldi
in other villages,
816
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,040
and one risks damaging them
817
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,360
in charging six.
818
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:01,680
It is beautiful, the world.
819
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,680
Light, shadow,
cold, heat, joy, non-joy...
820
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:07,560
Hope,
821
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:08,800
charity...
822
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,000
Infancy, youth, age...
823
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,080
Men, children, women...
824
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:18,040
Beautiful women, ugly women,
the grace of God, roguery
825
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:19,680
and honesty...
826
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:20,840
Memory,
827
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:22,520
fantasy.
828
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,440
What should that mean?
829
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:30,440
Oh, nothing.
830
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,160
Bread
831
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:33,320
and wine.
832
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,280
Sausages, milk, goats,
833
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,720
pigs and cows.
834
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:40,600
Rats.
835
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:41,760
Bears.
836
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:42,680
Wolves.
837
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:44,160
Birds.
838
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,200
Trees and smoke,
839
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:47,880
snow.
840
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,560
Sickness, recovery.
I know, I know.
841
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:54,240
Death,
842
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,040
immortality and resurrection.
843
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,280
It is extraordinary.
844
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:07,640
I suppose.
845
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:09,280
Too bad
846
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,320
to offend
the world.
847
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,920
Excuse me,
if someone knows another
848
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,880
whose acquaintance
he has made with great pleasure,
849
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,560
and then takes from him
two soldi or two lire more
850
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:28,320
for a service
he should have rendered gratis
851
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,080
due to the great pleasure
it gives him to know him,
852
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:35,080
what kind of thing is that one,
853
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,680
isn't that a man
who offends the world?
854
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,280
Thank you, friend.
855
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:45,720
Sometimes
856
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,920
one confuses
the pettinesses of the world
857
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,640
with the offenses to the world.
858
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,880
Ah! If there were
859
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:03,520
knives and scissors,
awls, picks and harquebuses,
860
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:09,320
mortars, sickles and hammers,
cannons, cannons, dynamite.
861
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,240
Translation: Danièle Huillet
Barton Byg
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