"The real show starts when they've reached their destination and got out of the truck, because then they put on their hard-man walk, rolling and swaggering along with a cigarette stuck in the corner of their mouths as if it had been shot there by catapult, and before you know it there's an uproar like a cross between an old gangster movie and the antics of an Antipodean sailor on shore leave."
- Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo
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