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Rotti Largo wishes he could recall some story here because it would work so well. People like stories, after all, because things are settled in stories. There is endings in stories, and romantic interludes, tragic ironies, but most of all a sense of order. Justice. People like absolution and in real life, so few things are so easily described. So he wishes he could think about something his father told him perhaps; or an uncle because that would work just as well. He sells absolution; and half of the story is the setting.
So it would have to be man, invoking one of those little rules people don’t like to talk about, someone distant and honest in that terribly common and unremarkable way. He had to be a tradesman too, because the story has to fit the moral, someone who worked honest and hard at his plight. He lived in some nowhere village in Italy, all romantic like, and Rotti would idolize him. Rotti likes the idea of a carpenter so this man is a simple man and the things he creates with his hands is art of a kind, even if no one sees it. He takes pride in what he makes with his hands because it’s good and solid. But of course it takes time, and mending.
( It's a long long way to the promised land So try where you are, do what you can You belong to what you understand So teach yourself how to demand the monument that you deserve For rising up in a beaten down world Aren't you going to come along? Aren't you going to fight? Aren't you going to hold your hands up to the light? If you feel an emptiness, if you want to hide Think about the blood that's pumping keeping you alive… )
foronenightonlyRotti Largo wishes he could recall some story here because it would work so well. People like stories, after all, because things are settled in stories. There is endings in stories, and romantic interludes, tragic ironies, but most of all a sense of order. Justice. People like absolution and in real life, so few things are so easily described. So he wishes he could think about something his father told him perhaps; or an uncle because that would work just as well. He sells absolution; and half of the story is the setting.
So it would have to be man, invoking one of those little rules people don’t like to talk about, someone distant and honest in that terribly common and unremarkable way. He had to be a tradesman too, because the story has to fit the moral, someone who worked honest and hard at his plight. He lived in some nowhere village in Italy, all romantic like, and Rotti would idolize him. Rotti likes the idea of a carpenter so this man is a simple man and the things he creates with his hands is art of a kind, even if no one sees it. He takes pride in what he makes with his hands because it’s good and solid. But of course it takes time, and mending.
( It's a long long way to the promised land So try where you are, do what you can You belong to what you understand So teach yourself how to demand the monument that you deserve For rising up in a beaten down world Aren't you going to come along? Aren't you going to fight? Aren't you going to hold your hands up to the light? If you feel an emptiness, if you want to hide Think about the blood that's pumping keeping you alive… )
