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a standstill for a moment.
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4. - Come on!
- No one knew what to do.
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and people were shouting on both sides.
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like plywood made of human flesh.
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in Knights of the Zodiac.
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but my cousin saw him at the stadium once,
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because he said totally different things.
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and he's already lighting another bomb.
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I recognized him from the bang.
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We were in Baghdad.
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Everything echoed around me.
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we start running... boom!
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or testudo formations, nothing.
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of a bubble of resentment
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but for months.
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because I have a very partial view.
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who stood out heroically,
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I was just trying to hang in there.
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from North Rome I used to tutor!
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We worked so hard on that.
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much progress since then.
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52. THE PEDAGOGUE'S FAILURE
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just enough to...
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As I touched the ground,
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coming towards me, and then...
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so shut up and listen.
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58. This is not a drill.
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has been in preparation for this.
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you need to think about now,
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may even coincide.
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or you'll be eating flies.
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are beating you up,
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because they're not aiming.
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with their toes,
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but I couldn't hear anything.
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because he'd gone off again.
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I was astonished.
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for the first time.
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who wants to take advantage?
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to film the fights...
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- Who?
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about this area!
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108. but there were 8,000 journalists
huddled around with popcorn,
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this is what they tell you...
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111. Hey, regular folk are here. Report back.
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the presence of elderly ladies
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I suggest immediate intervention.
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and I might never even work in it.
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because of the migrant shelter,
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the easiest thing to believe.
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and charity cases
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for more than 30 years.
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getting emptier for years.
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one after the other.
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long before the shelter came along.
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after our little chat, huh?
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I'd have invaded Poland by now.
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don't want to send their children here?
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a piece of the ceiling falls...
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150. - We don't give a fuck!
- Fucking dwarf! No one gives a shit!
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I've got to be on that show.
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have calmed down anyway.
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can get here now, by helicopter?
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their kids to different areas.
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"Get away from this black hole,
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161. "It all disappears off the radar
like in the Mariana Trench."
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- Domenica!
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I'm not a bloody idiot.
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I've always respected you.
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who say lots of nice things,
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all their problems here.
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for a question-and-answer session.
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of these poor people,
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and took advantage of your mother.
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189. What's he saying? We're here
because of that fucking shelter.
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190. Cesare, bloody hell! Give me that thing!
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- Asshole!
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- Let's go!
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Do something!
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200. - Shameful!
- Assholes!
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and closed us into a corner.
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bored out of our fucking minds.
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on one side and the other,
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that they brought here?
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that gets the old ladies going.
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are at the center of all this?
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with all the adrenaline, I'd forgotten...
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arguing, being warriors for a week,
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much attention to them.
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I have a thousand thoughts.
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is big-up my area.
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"Shitty neighborhood,"black hole."
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when we're pissed off.
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Do you think the Colosseum is better?
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and it's impossible to find parking.
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to defend you from those pieces of shit.
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247. Thank you, that's very kind.
But we know how to defend ourselves.
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248. I look at our team of good-for-nothings.
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249. Perhaps I was a bit presumptuous
with this defender thing.
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250. So I try and change things around
with a lower profile.
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251. We're not all like those
who want to send you away.
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as I didn't even ask her,
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with the people in Basilicata.
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into a police van and brought us here.
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because some Nazi kid got hurt.
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that they have to find out who hit him,
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from ministers to the traffic wardens.
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that I tutored him for three years.
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with such cognitive savagery
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to any actual beating.
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267. There you go, that's the whole story.
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268. Why did you go on about this to me?
To make my ears bleed?
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269. I already know what happened.
I'm your conscience. Remember?
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then I won't risk leaking something
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between mother-in-law and snitch.
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curling up in a ball worked well!
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276. Look at this little face,
not a scratch on it.
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277. No, that's actually because I'd forgotten
that this happens in the end.
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when they did the preparatory drawings.
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all the police station scenes,
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in your Instagram stories.
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and my wife has to help me.
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292. There's just you and another guy here.
The others have all left.
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295. I don't know! I had my answer ready
about not being a snitch.
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three days of torture
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to the newspapers,
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301. and then we'll see
in ten years' time at the trial.
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so we can all go home.
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303. I've only had a sandwich all day.
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before the charge.
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you keep talking about Cesare.
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someone I hate, I get nosebleeds.
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but I thought it was bullshit.
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but you never believed me.
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because a cop gave him a beating.
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- SNITCHES GET STITCHES.
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They're ripping us to bits.
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They'd just make you mad.
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They won't let us get away with it.
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showing who hit him
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for three years,
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even if they'd broken his legs,
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hog-tied him and thrown him in a hole,
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- Hey, I'm done.
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346. But watch out, this is going to turn
into a major tidal wave of shit tomorrow.
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don't mind a criminal conviction.
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whether it's worth losing your job
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gives a shit about your police record.
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but to the ladies.
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to save my own ass?
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- No!
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he's only good for beating people up.
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He's more sensitive than he looks.
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you were talking...
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you couldn't understand a thing.
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and was dying of thirst.
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during a pogrom.
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we're not all like these assholes
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100 kilometers without water.
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something away that is prohibited,
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and everyone pretend know nothing.
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that Domenica spoke about.
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oceanic depression in the world."
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understand how that's possible.
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can their organs function without light,
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of cubic meters of water?
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over the past days.
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to live together in a place
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is that good of a deal for you.
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that trees that stay in same field
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422. What did they do to replace me?
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423. I think they already had
someone else ready.
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424. An old guy with a cleft lip
who farted a few Battisti songs.
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425. He did all right.
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426. Oh, and your mother called
to congratulate you afterwards.
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427. For what?
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428. For the last song.
She said it was like the original.
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429. What do you mean? She thought that was me?
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430. You know she's got
her cataract surgery in September.
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431. Okay.
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432. Asshole.
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433. But she can still hear.
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434. It's not like she's never heard me fart.
She's my mother.
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435. Asshole.
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