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Blows were given and received. Men returned home embittered by their losses, by alcohol, by debts, by deadlines, by beatings, and at the first inopportune word they beat their families, a chain of wrongs that generated wrongs.
“If you don’t try, nothing ever changes.”
Father and son first had to explode until they wore themselves out. Then they went back to working together, mute, shut up in the shop with their desperations.
nothing happened. They didn’t speak for several days, then everything was as before.
Il modo Italiano: The Italian way
