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@@@@@Still I'm not sorry I never learned any
@@@@@Still I'm not sorry I never learned any Yiddish, it's better to have modern folks the way I did
Oh, my shoulder aches, why don't they ever leave us alone for a day? In the distance Roth could see the men, and he felt a pinch of anxietyOh, they're all working againThey're all going to be making cracks and what can I tell them, that I was looking at some kelp? They wouldn't understandWhy didn't I think of coming back sooner?
Wearily, timorously, Roth began to runSicill?" Polack asked MinettaThey were trudging along together through the sandMinetta with a grunt dropped his ration box on a new pile they were starting"No, Veneetz," he said"My grandfather was a big shot, you know, an aristocrat near Venice They turned around to go back to the landing craft"How do you know that stuff?" Minetta asked Polack
"Aaah, what do ya t'ink?" Polack said"I lived with a bunch of dagoesI know more about 'em than you do
"No, you don't," Minetta said"Listen, I wouldn't tell anybody this, 'cause you know how guys are, they'll think you're handing them a line of crap, but you can believe me, this is the truth, honestWe were really society, nobility, back in the old countryMy father never did a day's work in his life, all he'd ever do was go huntingWe had a regular estate
"You think I'm kidding youYou see, I don't look like an Italian, I got light-brown hair and light skinYou ought to see the rest of my family, they're all blond, I'm the black sheepThat's how you tell the aristocrats, they got light complexionsThis town we come from is named after one of my ancestors, the Duke of Minet |