"When I was eighteen I was a Fascist from my eyes to my boots." His hands outline the ample portions of himself which that includes.
"I volunteered for the army to go to war. I was in an officer school, then in Sicily, and four years after came my first real battle. I heard the toot-toot on the bugle" - he goes "toot toot" into his fist - "that meant `Prepare arms.' I was in the tent to pick up my gun and clean it, and I thought: `This time it is not for paper cut-out figures. This time you will have to kill real men,' and I knew then I couldn't. Not to kill men with mothers like mine, with
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