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The Boy With No Nose
The narrator describes him as a tall boy from Milan with a “very pale face” who had been awarded three medals. He had served as a lieutenant in the Arditi, an elite force in the Italian army during World War I, but planned to be a lawyer. The narrator says he has become a “little detached” as he “had lived a very long time with death.”
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We walked the short way through the communist quarter because we were four together. The people hated us because we were officers, and from a wineshop some one would call out, “A basso gli ufficiali!” as we passed.
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He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
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[…] we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.
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I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.
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The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart.
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We walked the short way through the communist quarter because we were four together. The people hated us because we were officers, and from a wineshop some one would call out, “A basso gli ufficiali!” as we passed.
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He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
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[…] we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.
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I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.
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The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart.
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