The Anglo Saxons
“… died a famished prisoner of war.
Like all poor, dumb Italians of his generation, he was fooled into fighting for the Duce in his madcap desert war.... Just as the Duce was in turn fooled by the Anglo Saxons.” – The thesis being that the double dealing Anglo Saxons (and why not the Jutes ho ho) pushed the oil-less* Duce into the hands of the mad Adolf Razzi. ‘nother gag Thierry only half appreciates, but one of those sweet ironies of the moment, which he readily does.
“For if we were fooled once, we shall be fooled again,
Destined to play out in some kind of eternal return,
To lose once again Abyssinia, Greece…
To witness Razzi like droids take over and new Duces hung.”
*Appears to be an allusion from the Italian, perhaps lost in translation. A man without oil for bread is considered to be very much down on his luck.
Like all poor, dumb Italians of his generation, he was fooled into fighting for the Duce in his madcap desert war.... Just as the Duce was in turn fooled by the Anglo Saxons.” – The thesis being that the double dealing Anglo Saxons (and why not the Jutes ho ho) pushed the oil-less* Duce into the hands of the mad Adolf Razzi. ‘nother gag Thierry only half appreciates, but one of those sweet ironies of the moment, which he readily does.
“For if we were fooled once, we shall be fooled again,
Destined to play out in some kind of eternal return,
To lose once again Abyssinia, Greece…
To witness Razzi like droids take over and new Duces hung.”
*Appears to be an allusion from the Italian, perhaps lost in translation. A man without oil for bread is considered to be very much down on his luck.
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