A Difficult Life Page #5

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about architecture.

Let the novel rest, and study.

If you graduate, mother has found a position

for you in Cant Cermenate.

Yesterday the child got his first tooth.

Here by the lake it continues to pour down.

- Here I am!

- Ugly disgrace!

Goodbye and thanks.

There is daddy. Do you see?

Is it Paolino?

My son! Look at him!

You've become a man! So beautiful!

- Do you look like me? You look like your daddy!

- Silvio.

My Elena!

- See who it is. - It's Simonini.

Look at that car.

Silvio! Elena! How been?

Such a beautiful child!

I've come to take you in my car.

Give uncle a kiss.

- Are you angry with me?

- We haven't seen each other for two years.

The last time was in the City Hall.

We had to occupy the RAI.

- They arrested me. Where were you?

- I had gone to take a cappuccino.

- There is a revolution and go for

a cappuccino! - Don't quarrel.

It wasn't like that.

Let me explain it to you.

That's not necessary, you left the workers

and joined the bosses.

The same bosses who sent me to jail.

He took all that I refused.

The wage, the car

- And there's the dancer from Macario.

- You know her?

- It's Nadia, right?

- Yes. - You disgust me!

- But - You must understand,

he is just out of jail, he is exasperated.

- I want you well, I want to help you.

- I don't want your help.

- I'm going to my newspaper.

- And start over like before? - Yes. - Goodbye!

Elena is not a Macario dancer,

if she must skip a meal, she will.

- Come and have lunch with me.

- No, I have already eaten.

Don't pull! The child!

Elena doesn't need to go in a car,

- she's from the mountains,

she like to walk. - Then walk!

Yes, I walk.

- Watch out.

- Phone me.

I spend two years in jail for serving

this newspaper in an honest way

and you tell me I no longer have a job here?

Unfortunately, things haven't gone too well,

your job doesn't exist anymore.

Director, dear colleagues,

I didn't expect this betrayal.

Even worse for me is, I have always believed in us.

I'm sorry, but since you react

like that, I must tell you the truth.

- Which is?

- Your wife and your mother-in-law pleaded me

- not to take you back at the newspaper.

- They did this?

Now you have a son, and the wage

here is always the same.

- Then what should I do?

- Study. Your mother-in-law will help you.

With a degree you will have a less

brilliant future, but more secure.

Thanks, is that the reason?

Then tomorrow at 8, I will be at my desk.

I'll show my wife that degree!

I'm the lady on the floor below.

Please, make your son turn off that music.

My husband is studying,

he must take a degree.

At least make him change that record.

What you want? Get out!

Paolino, leave dad alone.

Your father must study!

- Don't do that to your mother!

Elena! Don't hit the child!

- How can I study like this?

- We have only one room!

Don't cry, you know your dad

must study for his degree.

- My love! Elena, he's ill!

- What?

- He's burning, that is why he cried.

- He has a fever. Phone the doctor.

They said on the radio that Stalin is dead.

- Can I take out the thermometer?

- Yes.

- 37,4.

- He's happy, right?

- His fever is gone. - The crisis

is over - Yes, it is over.

You are well!

- Don't inject him.

- And what did the doctor say?

- He has made it through.

- Yes, he is well now.

- We won't torture him any more.

- Yes.

- Sister, who is dead?

- Stalin.

- He is much better.

- Really?

- Mama's love.

- He is well. He has recovered.

He's through the crisis.

Is it true Stalin is dead?

Yes. Mother is here.

Granny's child. How are you?

You gave me a real scare.

I brought you a nice gift, a tricycle.

Are you happy grandmother has come?

- Silvio.

- Mother.

Give me a kiss.

Dear mother!

The historians will say he was a cruel dictator,

but an epoch is closely tied

to his name

and nobody can yet say which

crises may be triggered by his death.

The radio newscast is finished.

...always thinking about the newspapers,

about politics.

it will never change. - As soon as he finishes

the degree, we'll take him out of Rome.

You will move to Cant Cermenate,

marry in church,

and your priest uncle will consider

giving him a steady job.

One day you will come out to the

countryside in a beautiful automobile.

Everyone will see, my daughter

didn't marry a beggar.

- You were eavesdropping? - Yes.

- You heard everything? - Yes.

Do you agree with my plans?

Because of my love for Elena,

I'll accept any imposition,

- but where do you want me to live?

In Cant Cermenate? - Yes.

- I'm supposed to go from Rome to Cant

Cermenate? - Is that so strange?

- You romans make mistakes.

- No.

- Don't be so arrogant.

- Very well.

Attention. The examinations continue

with the letter M.

- Magnozzi Silvio.

- Here! - It's my turn?

- Don't be nervous.

- Go, I've been praying all morning for you.

- We'll wait here for you.

- Silvio, the marsala!

In the mouth of the wolf.

In what mood are the professors?

Good morning, professors.

Why aren't you shaved?

I have studied all night.

It is not necessary with a beard to

demonstrate that you have studied.

Such excuses will not

bring you a second chance.

Excuse me, but it's been 12 years

in which I didn't attend university.

We'll start with an easy question.

What is the safety coefficient

for precompressed concrete?

Safety coefficient for precompressed concrete.

There is a 5.

I'm sure there is.

- There is?

- Young man, you must not guess.

- Sit down.

- Yes.

Maybe I'll think better. Thanks.

So?

I don't know.

- If it don't answer these questions

- Make me a simpler one.

- That is a simple question.

- It is simple.

They made me drink a marsala.

It has made me feel bad.

I feel numb.

I don't remember anything.

- How old are you?

- 33.

How come you are this delayed?

I've been in the war, in the resistance,

suffered a frozen finger.

After that I was in journalism,

passionately engaged in social

problems, problems of southern Italy,

also I was a follower of the fighing peasants.

The Resistance does not have any value here.

The Resistance does not have value?

Then what was I supposed to do?

What the others did in 1944?

Wear the uniform

of the Black Brigades,

and get my degree by aiming

a gun at the professors?

Don't make these gestures and don't raise

your voice, or I'll through you out!

Outside, my wife and my

mother-in-law are waiting for me.

And then?

Please, don't let me make such a bad impression.

- Be seated.

- Thanks.

Do you see that drawing?

Calculate at point A the momentary

forces on a supported beam

with a moving overload

in points 1, 2, 3 on the X-Y path.

I have understood.

Thanks of your kindness.

How did it go?

- Marenghi Elvira.

- Here I am.

What time is it?

- Hello?

- Elena, I flunked at my exam.

- I know. Where are you?

- At the Cangaceiro.

- What is that?

- You don't know what the Cangaceiro is?

Ignorant! It's my friend Ragana's night club.

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