The Nocturnal Library by Ermanno Cavazzoni

Author:Ermanno Cavazzoni [Cavazzoni, Ermanno]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908251237
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It should be said that while he was talking, Santoro would occasionally laugh like a madman and add, “All water under the bridge. Who cares any more? We were all so young.” And Fischietti would give him an elbow in the ribs and say, “Shut it. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Who do you think you are? A professor?” Santoro would then laugh all the louder and between them they started to do those playful punches in the stomach and slaps on the face. While the other was talking, Fischietti had picked up a cockroach from the floor and thrown it in his mouth. Santoro had to interrupt himself to spit it out; he examined the half-drowned insect and then laughed again. There was also an exchange of elastic bands in the middle of story. I didn’t know what to believe in the face of this behaviour: whether I should believe it or whether they were just tall stories expressly invented for me. However, it was clear that he was not an uneducated man, or had not been when he was young. Perhaps Rasorio and Pantani had also told tall stories; they were certainly unlikely, absurd and well calculated to upset my nerves, shock me, gnaw my mind and distract me. All of them seemed to be the shrill and malign voices of temptation.

Once more the hour rang out. It was five and my whole brain suffered from discomfort and toothache.

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