In those young years

 

In those young years
   
   
And in those young years he had the appearance of a painter, with his blond short beard and curly hair which he wore a bit longer than was usual for the time.
Convinced about his still confused reasons and unhappy about his lack of cultural knowledge (he only knows about Art and loves Ungaretti) he looked for friends amongst the students of Ca’Foscari, with that attitude of persistent demands which he would keep towards all those whom he considered cultured: he wanted to know, he listened and debated – to come to the conclusion that there is nothing new after all, that he had already understood it all looking at painting or that he himself had expressed it in painting.
The partisans were the glimmer of novelty: he distributed leaflets, spent a few nights on the floors of police headquarters of San Lorenzo. They sent him to Marghera to dig trenches for the Germans and he organized escapes.
 
 
 
 

 

 


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