Italo Calvino by Difficult Loves

Author:Difficult Loves
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-09T09:25:38+00:00

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for him to be left alone. And now he, the officer, had also stayed on, and there were only the two of them left in the bar, Emanuele drooping desolately on his stool and the American standing in front of him with his arms crossed. When he was certain that they were quite alone, the officer shook the plump man by an arm and began talking to him. Felice approached to act as interpreter, a broad grin on his stubbly cobbler’s face.

“Tell him that you can get him a girl, too,” he said to Emanuele.

Emanuele blinked his eyes, then let his chin fall on his chest again.

“You to me, girl,” said the officer. “Me to you, dollars.”

“Dollars! …” Emanuele mopped his face with his handkerchief. He got up. “Dollars,” he repeated. “Dollars.”

He and the officer left the bar together. Night clouds were flying high in the sky. From the end of the mole the lighthouse was winking slowly, rhythmically. The air was still full of the song: “Hallelujah!”

“The day is ending, the skies are blue, Hallelujah!” sang Emanuele and the officer, as they strolled along in the middle of the street, arm in arm, in search of a haunt for an all-night spree.

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