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Epigraph

It was more or less at this point that from the shadows, where the people, in safety, were concealed, arose a loud naked cry of ‘Enough!’ It was a demand from the people, peremptory, threatening; there was something cosmic about it.

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio, 1997¹

Notes

All notes by the translator are placed in square parentheses and preceded by TR. All other notes are Nancy’s.

1  1 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio, tr. Ann Goldstein, New York: Pantheon Books, 1997, p. 449. The text continues thus: ‘In fact, the passing of time, even if it is illusory, determines both the end of a historical period and the end of life. The one who had cried “Enough!” knew that: knew how to do injury, not merely express a just political demand. What again remained uncertain was whether the person who had shouted was simply a tired member of the audience or a Fascist to whom Pound as an intellectual, perhaps with Èvola, seemed more than enough, or even a Marxist extremist, who simply found any proposition reactionary that brought about a crisis in the concept of history’ (ibid.).